Remus group died and we can say without the theme of denial that it was a piece of our history not only cinematographic. He was 76 years old, he suddenly left on October 3 in the Montecarlo house where he lived with his wife Vittoria.
When the TV series were called screenplays and the on demand did not exist, each episode was a collective appointment. So it was for sure with The octopus That between the eighties and nineties was, through the first evening of the Rai flagship, a powerful tool for civic education: Remo Group He brought, before the definitive sentence of the maxiprocess and the massacres of Capaci and via D’Amelio filled the chronicles, through the TV the dynamics of the mafia in the homes of the Italians, showing them through the effectiveness of a well -built story, and recited by great actors, the unconfessable relationships between the bosses and the finance, the dangerous relationships between politics and crime, the joint responsibilities between instigators and executors.
If Michele Placido, in the role of Commissioner Cattani (and after him Vittorio Mezzogiorno who succeeded him in the role of the good), was for Italy of those years and for The octopus What was Captain Bellodi, played by Franco Nero, in Civetta day, Tano Cariddi was the opposite side of the mirror: the most insidious face of Cosa Nostra, the one without a coppola, masked by the double -breasted.
If the notion of that role today seems obvious then it was not. It was not even the success, which was enormousalso thanks to the test of great actors, Among these Remo Group, who also had the disadvantage of not enjoying the wind a stern of a hero he could become attached to usindeed to find yourself, in the fiction on the set, in partibus infidelium.
The year 1987 was ran and that detestable character recited with all the trappings widen the staircase of the success of what had been an eclectic actor especially in the theater.
He was born on December 1, 1948 in Asmara, in Eritrea to Italian parents who had moved there. He had started a boy with the theater, and then train in Rome to Silvio D’Amico. The theater remained the ancient love, but in many films he had shown versatile skill: from Unitoring Dictation of Cino, al Journey by Captain Fracassa of school, up toAngelo with the gun of Damiani. Always passed with ease from the drama to the theater comedy with Cactus flower directed by Gabriele Ferro, paired with Eleonora Giorgi and, more recently at the cinema, with Claudio Bisio in Welcome President. In that difficult and insidious proof that sports cinema is always the historic president Ferruccio Novo in the TV film dedicated to Great Turin and Enzo Ferrari in Le Mans, the great challenge With Matt Damon and Christian Bale.
In 2023 he joked that we would see him more and more often on the side of the good, aware as he was to have remained potentially trapped in that bad face of 1987 who prevented us from forgetting it and perhaps even a little bit of forgetting.
