“Europe united as the only reasonable utopia”, “the largest institution of the last 5000 years made on the planet Earth by the human being, a project, an ideal, a hope, a challenge, a dream”, the son of the courage and foresight of “three men, three heroes, Altiero Spinelli, Ernesto Rossi and Eugenio Colorni”, gathered “on the small island of Ventotene”. “An economic and political dream of union and peace, the most exciting democratic experiment”. Roberto Benigni returns to Rai1 with the dream And it leverages its hymn to Europe and peace, a few hours after the attack of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni to the Manifesto di Ventotene and on the eve of the European Council on the plan of rearmament.
And 4 million 396 thousand, equal to 28.1% of share, the viewers who followed the program yesterday. The show also aired in Eurovision, simultaneously on Radio 2 and streaming on Raiplay.
«We are without a network, live on Rai1, also live on Radio2, on Raiplay, in Eurovision: But this is a coup, we are everywhere, even on the microwave oven if you turn it on! “jokes Benigni by opening the evening, from the studios of via Tiburtina in Rome. «I greet the President of the Republic, I know he’s looking at us. And how not to greet his holiness Pope Francis, who heals soon. Yesterday he said a phrase that moved me, we must disarm the words to disarm the minds and the earth ». “With the abbreviation of Eurovision we have only remained Sanremo and we tonight, but it is not Sanremo,” ironically. At the last festival “I said there was a love story between Giorgia Meloni and Elon Musk. But she called me Meloni to deny: it is not true, between me and Musk there is nothing, I swear on my Tesla,” Benigni smiles. “I thank the Rai who gives us the opportunity to be seen throughout Europe even if it is a delicate moment, of instability, divisions, dexter, He would like to fail … Rai, not Europe », specifies jokingly. Being European: Europe is the smallest continent in the world that has turned on the fuse of all revolutions, has transformed the planet, for three thousand years it has been the forge where some of the greatest thoughts of humanity have been forged “,” a common heritage, an immense treasure in all fields “.
Europe insists the Oscar winner by quoting De Gasperi, “the greatest prime minister we had”, “is not a cold thing that is in Brussels or Strasbourg, it is a warm, close, full of passion and love. It is no coincidence that his hymn is the hymn to Beethoven’s joy ». From “Extreme Authority”, convinced that nationalism is “the fuel of all wars”, “an fundamentalist faith, an obsession for the nation above everything, also of God, a disease that masks itself as patriotism”, the Oscar winner stresses that “the most moving and exciting page” of this federal journey was written in Italy, “in a small island of the Tyrrhenian who is called Ventotene.. While everything around there were ruins, dead, corpses, in 1941, on this rock, three men, three heroes, spinels, reds and colors, had a flash, an idea, to change everything, turn the page: the idea of European unity. They thought of our future, with a document that was a dream but also of concreteness and extraordinary depth ». Thus tells the story of the Ventotene manifesto, “a sort of fairy tale”, written by men who “did not look at the next elections, but in the next generations”. A text that “contains some ideas overcome, linked to that historical period but this does not take away its size,” because the central idea is still very current “, based on” social justice that leaves no one back “.