Matilde Bernabei is still the queen of fiction. With her father Ettore, she founded Lux Vide more than 30 years ago, precisely in 1992. A winning bet. "With half of the liquidation, 800 million lire, dad and I founded Lux".
For her father and her, at their beginnings, worked Alessandro Borghi, Micaela Ramazzotti, Alba Rohrwacher, Luca Marinelli, Miriam Leone and many others. Also Terence Hill with Don Matteo: "They said he has two expressions: but they pierce the heart". A family business that has always worked: "In '94 I asked my brother Luca to come and work in production, for 11 years he has been the CEO. We made a hit by convincing Dustin Hoffman to play The Medici: we paid him a holiday in Italy for his 30th wedding anniversary".
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A devout Catholic even though she has never voted Christian Democracy, Matilde Bernabei to Corriere della Sera also recalls when she produced "May God help us". A title not by chance. "Sometimes I was scared. There were huge economic problems, I feared bankruptcy: the Kirch group, the largest group in European audiovisuals, had failed, and owed us 30 billion lire: we saved ourselves because I convinced them to give us some of their series, which I then resold to various broadcasters. An operation that saved us. I had a psychophysical breakdown, you know when you can't get out of bed and you want to disappear? I threw my heart beyond the obstacle and, full of fears, I went to get it back".
Today Lux has become part of Fremantle. A necessity: "To move forward in an increasingly competitive and changing world, it was important to tie ourselves to a European group. We have joined the Fremantle family, which will consolidate 100 percent of the shares over the next three years. Our series talk about all problems and how to try to solve them to live a little better your own life. We will continue on this path".
At 20 Matilde Bernabei married Giovanni Minoli. "I saw Giovanni but at home I didn't tell anyone. He is 9 years older than me, which as young people equates to a world. He lived in a loft in Trastevere. My father, who was a friend of his father, after a few months understood and said: I don't think you talk about Napoleon every day. Let's do this: either you get married or you don't see him anymore...".
A marriage their own way perfect. "Giovanni and I have had other lives and loves, there was my escape to Norway...For some years we have lived in two communicating houses, in the evening we often dine together, we talk about everything with pleasure. Like all great loves it has imperfections. Our daughter Giulia is the expression of our best".
Matilde doesn't like the term cohabitation. And to Corsera she wants to clarify that "there are millions of types of love. We have a heritage of passions, interests and common values. When I met him, at 20, he was already working at Rai. Giovanni is an institutional revolutionary but he is also the most intelligent and fascinating man I know. We will soon celebrate our golden wedding".
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