Tonight on Canale 5 airs in two episodes on the life of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, entitled Call me Francesco, the Pope of the people. and directed by Di Daniele Luchettias well as the film of the same name by the same title that PCO had been released before in theaters. Wanted by Pietro Valsecchi and produced for Taodue Film, and made in 2015, less than two years after the beginning of Bergoglio’s pontificate, he was made in sixteen weeks of filming between Argentina, Germany and Italy, with an international actors and over 3 thousand extras. Bergoglio Giovani is played by the Argentine actor Rodrigo de la Serna, while the Chilean Sergio Hernández plays the role of the most mature Bergoglio. We propose the interview that Christian family He made director Daniele Luchetti at the time of the first exit on TV.
The director Daniele Luchetti
«The story starts exactly where he started in the film. Jorge Mario Bergoglio leaves Buenos Aires to go to the conclave and begins to rethink his past », explains the Roman director.
Luchetti, the television series what will have different from the film?
«Compared to the film film in the fiction I tell two more things. The first is the period in which Bergoglio was a teacher of literature in the college of Santa Fe, and in particular I focus on when Bergoglio invites and hosts the writer Jorge Luis Borges. The second episode is when, immediately before leaving for the conclave, you can see the daily life of the bishop of Buenos Aires, struggling with the problems of the people who live in the poor neighborhoods of the city, the “villa misery”. These are not long episodes, there will be an international version of the series on Net ‡ IX a little longer and more in -depth, while the Italian one is drier and more concise ».
From the point of view of the direction technique, does something change between the film and the television series?
«Television gives more time to explore the relationships between the characters, but I have not thought the film as directed to two different types of public. I don’t think, as often, it is thought that the television audience is more distracted, the public is one and I use a single language ».
Even in the television series you kept faith with your intention of not doing Bergoglio “a Santino”?
«Absolutely yes. Mine does not want to be and is not the hagiography of a man who since childhood has the premonition of what will happen to him in life. You don’t see a destiny announced from the beginning. Jorge Mario Bergoglio is a man, and then a priest, bishop and a completely normal cardinal, to whom one day it happens to be an exceptional Pope ».
Can you give an example of what is this “exceptionality” of Pope Francis for you?
«A few days ago, visiting a parish of Testaccio, the priest told me that Pope Francis sends money to help the needy of the parish and asks that at the end of the day the coffers are empty. I was very impressed by seeing the Pope thus entering the life of the needy Roman. Also in Rome Bergoglio brought that work he did on the road in the Argentine capital ».
We saw the Pope immortalized in hundreds of selfies. How do you judge Pope Francis’ relationship with his image?
“There are those who say that Francesco is a pope very attentive to the image, so much so that every gesture would also be designed for the effect he will produce. I think that perhaps only partially can be so. If certain images and certain gestures affect people, it is also because at the basis of those gestures and its attitude in general there is a great spontaneous push, of authenticity “.
How do you judge Bergoglio’s pontificate?
«I expected that the disruptive words that Pope Francis used at the beginning of the pontificate had a more powerful effect. I expected that the whole church would follow him more, instead I see many resistance, while there is great attention and sympathy on the part of the laity. For example, I thought the encyclical Laudato yes It would have become a kind of contemporary manifesto of all. Perhaps Francesco is too avant -garde for a reality like the Church, accustomed to very slow steps. The Pope gave a push, but as an answer there was only one movie. “
