He's not just a player who scores goals, he's not just the star of the Scudetto, the only one won by Cagliari: Gigi Riva is a legend who goes beyond football because he brought "success" to Sardinia. That success that never happened.
Ten days after the release of the film "A thunderclap in our sky", the story of Gigi Riva and the whole of Sardinia continues to excite: everyone talks about it, everyone runs to the cinema to see their idol tell his story. Because Riccardo Milani's cinematographic work is an act of love and esteem for a man who has represented and represents for everyone a moral and human example of integrity and not just a sports champion like few others in history. Both shy, just like the Sardinians, they have become Sardinians in turn: Rumble of thunder more than fifty years ago for the reasons we all know, the Roman director in recent days, for having recounted the Myth, respecting times and spaces.
In April of the seventies, thanks to Gigi Riva, Italy began to ford Sardinia, for the first time, with respect where previously it was considered only a land of shepherds, short, ignorant and hairy. And for the first time from Olbia to Alghero, from Sassari to Nuoro, up to the villages of the interior, Cagliari belonged to everyone: men, children but also women and the elderly.
“It's not just a film about Gigi Riva. It tells us Sardinians, the abuses suffered and the fact that the Scudetto of Cagliari was the moment in which Sardinia entered Italy ", is one of the most recurring comments that can be read on the web.
"It speaks of a decent and honest man who chose Sardinia as his home, of a giant on and off the field" so that, even for those who have not lived those years, the emotion becomes spontaneous, because those images flow the stories told by grandparents, fathers and mothers to their children and grandchildren.
And that's why "In our sky a thunderclap" is a necessary film, to which all Sardinians are grateful. A tribute of a whole people to their hero.