Seventy years of television, celebrated on Sunday evening, January 7th, on Rai 1 with the film La luce nella masseria, broadcast in prime time on Rai 1. Director: Riccardo Donna And Tiziana Aristarcothe film takes place in Matera in the sixties: Pinuccio (Giovanni Limite) is eleven years old and witnesses with his own eyes the rapid and inexorable change in his family and his simple, rural world due to the introduction of new technologies. The protagonist of the story is the large Rondinone family, led by the patriarch Eustachio (Renato Carpentieri), have you always experienced adversity together? and for decades he has been cultivating the land and living off the fruits of his own labor. A hard life, sometimes very hard, but for eleven year old Pinuccio is that it? mixed with magic and dreams, such as that of a television that only the city's few wealthy families could afford in 1962.
A scene from “The Light on the Farm”
Also in the cast Domenico Diele which, like in a television story, comes back into the spotlight on its way to rebirth. The actor, born in Siena in 1985, made his first steps in 2009 in series such as Un medico in famiglia and Don Matteo as well as in the film Questo piccolo grande amore (also by Donna). In 2012 he rose to fame with “ACAB – All Cops Are Bastards”. Stefano Sollima next to Pierfrancesco Favino and the miniseries The Last Pope King of Luca Manfredi next to Gigi Proietti.
Diele and Tea Falco in the Sky series “1992”
From now on a series of productions for small and big screen, from Paura 3D dei Manetti Bros. to Adriano Olivetti – The Strength of a Dream, 1992 and Don't kill, but also The Ice Forest by Claudio NoceMy mother's Nanni Moretti And Me and her From Maria Sole Tognazzi. “Clean face, big clear eyes, and a good boy’s smile” was the description given to him, and it truly seemed as if the firmament had a new star.
Domenico Diele and Alessandra Mastronardi in the Rai drama “Once upon a time Studio Uno”
Then, in 2017, the actor hit the headlines after he was involved in a serious traffic accident on the Salerno-Reggio Calabria route in which a woman died: Diele was driving with a suspended license and positive in toxicology tests and was arrested for aggravated homicide in traffic. He was subsequently placed under house arrest and sentenced in the first instance to seven years and eight months in prison in 2019, later reduced to five years and ten months.
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“I am a heroin addict, but drugs had nothing to do with the accident. I was distracted with my cell phone – he explained at the time – “I am guilty, I will scream my guilt with all my might.” I have no excuses, I made a mistake and I have to pay for it. I only have the job, and when I get out of this affair with my career ruined, I won't even have that job anymore. It’s right that I pay for what I did, but it’s not right that I’m portrayed as a criminal.”
Domenico Diele in “The Light on the Farm”
“There is something extremely liberating in acting, a feeling similar to what you feel as a child when you act with full enthusiasm,” were his words at the beginning of his promising career, today after he has paid his debts with justice has, Diele is slowly recovering. The series Good Morning, Mom! from 2021 with Raoul Bova And Maria Chiara Giannetta marks his return to the stage, followed today by “The Light in the Farmhouse,” which almost seems like a metaphor for his life. And in which he plays Vincenzo, a sunny, vital, cheerful man who is loved by women, respected by his father and brothers and adored by his nephews, especially Pinuccio. Why “if so?” do something crazy and? He is the one to go to,” we read in the character description, “he has all the qualities to become the leader of the family and keep it together.”
But fate has an adventure in store for him that bears the name of a terrible disease: multiple sclerosis. Vincenzo feels “defective” and will have to learn that he isn’t? his illness and that he deserves to be loved even in a wheelchair and that he can continue to be the sunny, vital and happy person that he is? “I have always been the leader, able to keep the family together.” “If you could, what would you want for Luca Pastore (your 1992 character) and what would you want for yourself instead?” he was asked in an interview before the accident; The answer was: “Peace”.