1980 is the protagonist of the first meeting with Giovanni Minoli, who returns to retrace the television adventure of “Mixer” in his new “Mixer – Twenty Years of Television” available from Thursday 12 January also on Wednesdays at 9:15 p.m. on Rai Storia). The episode brings Minoli’s famous 1980 “Face to Face” back to life, like the one starring Paolo Rossi and Bruno Giordano, two champions on trial over the soccer betting scandal; Bettino Craxi and Marco Pannella; Maurizio Vitale; Umberto Terracini, the father of the Constituent Assembly; Giovanni Torrisi, Chief of Defense Staff and member of the P2 Lodge. The poll, re-proposed in 1980, concerns the party system and electoral law, which Giorgio Napolitano and Claudio Martelli discussed with Minoli, while a report of international scope on “Islam and the burqa” was very prescient.
There is no shortage of cinema and music: the first through the history of the great Italian cinema together with Leo Benvenuti with Monica Vitti, Ugo Tognazzi, Alberto Sordi; the second with Gianni Minà and his encounters with Adriano Celentano, Gianni Morandi, Francesco De Gregori, Lucio Dalla, Pino Daniele. In the end, the editorial by Gemma Pontini aka Paolo Villaggio is inevitable.
From Room A of Radio Rai, directed by Luca Mancini, Minoli narrates the great themes and turning points of Italian history at the end of the 20 years later, he seizes the narrative power and the documentary value of historical intaglio and its protagonists, its investigations, its encounters and of his stories and highlights a continuity between the 1980s and 1990s and the photography of our country today – since when “Today’s world began yesterday,” says Minoli himself.
“Mixer – Twenty Years of Television” – 20 episodes of 45′ each – is a program conceived and directed by Giovanni Minoli, produced by Rai Cultura in collaboration with Radio Rai, written with Giovanna Corsetti, Giulia Foschini, Sara Tardelli and Ludovica Siani. Directed by Luca Mancini. Studio recordings of Sala A from Radio Rai by Leonardo Lo Frano, edited by Serena Valeri, Executive Produced by Roberta Sangermano. Rai Delegate Piero A. Corsini.
