1957, a film year
The year 2023 ended, on a cinematic level, with yet another theatrical release of a film film about the story of Enzo Ferrari. The American production of the blockbuster 'Ferrari', directed by Michael Mann and featuring an exceptional cast of Adam Driver, Shailene Woodley and Penélope Cruz, focuses on one particular year in the founder's life: the 1957.
The story develops on two levels: one sportywith the story of tragic Mille Miglia of that year – the last in history due to the Guidizzolo Tragedy, in which the Spanish pilot Alfonso de Portago and the American co-pilot Edmund Gurner Nelson perished as well as nine spectators, including five children – and the other personal.
In this second narrative aspect the story is told double life of Enzo Ferrari, who in addition to his marriage to Laura Garello had a son – Piero – with his lover Lina Lardi. In an interview given to the official Ferrari website Piero himself – who collaborated on the screenplay of the film – said what is true and what instead was the result of 'poetic' licenses in Mann's work.
Between reality and fiction
“1957 was indeed a year in which many things happened – noted Ferrari – today everyone remembers it because the last edition of the Mille Miglia took place, which ended with that great tragedy. Then the fact that my father had two families came to light. One was the one with his wife Laura and his son Dino, who had passed away the previous year, and the other was the one with myself and my mother Lina“.
Among the aspects not faithfully reported in the film is De Portago's arrival at Ferrariwhich in reality had already happened in 1956 and not just before the Mille Miglia – as emerges from the film – and a excessively strong characterization of Enzo Ferrari's character. In fact, Piero explained how it was not true that his father was willing to sacrifice anything on the altar of victory: “It was not like this. She wanted to win. Victory was the aim of his challenges, but not at any cost and above all without risking the lives of the pilots“.
More realistic, however, according to Piero Ferrari, is the his father's dedication to working in the company – “It's true that he spent a lot of time there” – and also the great attraction that the Maranello cars already aroused at the time towards those who we would now call VIPs and personalities from entertainment and high society. In short, the most classic of warnings also applies in this case: not everything you see on the big screen is real.
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