Actor Ettore Berabei 1921-2016 Age: 95
Thanks Ettore Berabei for the wonderful entertainment. May You Rest in Peace...
Rome - he 'died at the age of 95 years Ettore Bernabei, historical director general of RAI from 1961 to 1974. Bernabei has all'Argentaio, where he was on holiday with his family. Born in Florence on May 16, 1921 Bernabei was a practicing Catholic, father of eight children, had dedicated his life to journalism, his first and great passion. Editor of Il Popolo (organ of the DC) in 1956, director general of RAI from 1961 to 1974, was head of Italstat and ultimately producer tv with Lux Vide. It was very close to the Vatican, among his books "The man of trust."
The funeral will be held Tuesday at 11 in Rome, in the church of St. Eugene. "They will be the party for his passage to heaven," said Luca, one of eight children.
Matteo Renzi, "Bernabei was something more than a state manager, having experienced first hand some major pages also the foreign policy of our country. And personally I thought remains engraved on his passion for Italy and for his future that a few weeks ago confirmed to me in a long meeting at Palazzo Chigi full of anecdotes and good advice ". For the prime minister "disappears one of the most significant figures of postwar Italy. A true Florentine, belonging in all respects to the great season of the Catholic Florence of the late twentieth century, culturally and spiritually ties even before politically La Pira and Fanfani" .
The President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella Bernabei called "a great journalist and intellectual figure". "It was the protagonist," said the Head of State, "the construction of a public radio and television, always respectful of his audience and engaged with ambition to accompany the development of the country. In his subsequent experiences learned Bernabei bring his beliefs about the role of intellectuals in society: television and new media as a training vehicle for free opinions and witnesses of positive values. to the family I extend the expression of the most affectionate solidarity. "
Bernabei was a graduate in Modern Literature at the University of Florence. He started as a journalist in 1946. From 1951 to 1956 he was director of the "Morning Paper", Florence newspaper of Christian inspiration. Close to the then Secretary of the DC Aminore Fanfani in 1956 was called to Rome to direct The People, newspaper of the Christian Democratic Party.
From 1961 to 1974 he was the great general director of RAI, then only television and radio station in Italy, where He assigned the mission to educate the nation. In those years, the RAI programs produced and transmitted as Tv7 and dramas taken from great literary works such as the Odyssey, the novels of Tolstoy, of Alessandro Manzoni, Archibald Cronin. TV series were made such as: The Acts of the Apostles and directed by Roberto Rossellini; Moses; Jesus of Nazareth directed by Franco Zeffirelli.
In 1974 - after leaving the general management of RAI - Bernabei began his 'second' life as a manager it is to be the lead Italstat, a financial state-owned specialized in the design and construction of major infrastructure and civil engineering projects. In that year Italstat had a registered capital of 100 billion lire and an annual turnover of 450 billion lire. When, in 1991, Bernabei he leaves the presidency, the Italstat had a registered capital of 1,500 billion lire and an annual turnover of 6,000 billion lire.
In 1992 he founded in Rome the television production company Lux Vide, which aims to produce television drama programs, for listening to families. Among other things achieved in European co-production, drama programs broadcast by networks in Italy, Germany, France and the United States. The most challenging project carried out by Lux The stories of the Bible, the television series of twenty-one films based on the Old and New Testament, broadcast by RAI in Italy, and in 143 other countries thanks to the collaboration of the Tunisian producer Tarak Ben Ammar who allowed filming in his country. His ninety years were celebrated with his keynote address at the Pontifical Lateran University on May 16, 2011. (AGI)
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