Over 70 films shot in six decades of activities: always loved and appreciated by a broad and heterogeneous audience: Massimo Boldi80 years old next July, will receive the Massimo Troisi prize in Salina, the island that was the set of “Il Postino”, considered the Troisian cinema testament.
The XIV edition of Marefestival will take place From Friday 13 to Sunday 15 June: three days full of cinema and culture that at the beginning of summer transform Salina into a small capital of the big screen with a rich parterre of guests. Also for 2025 the godmother of the event will be Maria Grazia Cucinottainterpreter of the film nominated in 1996 to 5 Oscar prizes and winner of a statuette for music: “An inevitable appointment in my agenda – explains the actress – because I continue to travel the world and I realize that” the postman “has remained in the hearts of people, in some countries they also show him in schools. When it happens to listen to the notes of the soundtrack of Luis Bacalov, the bucolic, romantic scenes come to mind. Deep, full of love shot in Pollara and in other magnificent breathtaking locations.
Boldi will be a guest in the first two evenings, Friday 13 and Saturday 14, he will retrace the salient moments of his multifaceted career, which began in 1963 and who led him to work with the best masters and the greatest protagonists of the Italian comedy: from Corbucci to Vanzina, from Salce to Pozzetto, from Villaggio to Castellano and Pipolo, from Oldoini to relatives, reciting alongside the numbers one and forming together with Christian De Sica, one of the funniest and most iconic couples, thanks for the long strand of the “cinepanettone”. But not only comic actor, Boldi has been able to range from cabaret to television and music. “We are honored to welcome an interpreter symbol of our comedy like Boldi to Salina – he comments Massimiliano Cavaleriartistic director of the event and founder of the prize together with Patrizia Casale And Francesco Cappello – There is no Italian that has not seen its countless successes that have significantly marked the history of laughter Made in Italy “.
Marefestival Salina Troisi Prize, which in 2023 and 2024 was sponsored by the Ministry of Culture and a series of regional institutions, is presented by the journalist Nadia La Malfa; author of the interviews Giovanni Pontillo. In the past 13 editions, 90 Troisi prizes were delivered to Big Cinema including: Matt Dillon, Pupi Avati, Sergio Castellitto, Miriam Leone, Edoardo Leo, Giovanni Veronesi, Fausto Brizzi, Roberto Andò, Neri Parenti, Giorgio Pasotti, Lunetta Savino, Francesco Pannofino, Lino Banfi, Giorgio Tirabassi, Anna Galiena, Alessandro Haber, Sabrina, Tognazzi, Serena Autieri, Valeria Solarino, Simona Izzo, Pif … just to name a few.