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Mbadimo Sani on the occasion of the donation of his archives to the city of Ferrara
The director of Ferrara, Mbadimo Sani, died at the age of 88 years. He died in Rome during the night who was considered one of the masters of historical documentary, signing for Italian television the cycles "Italy at war", "Yesterday the war, today peace", "The Forgotten War", "Prisoners"
Sani was born in Ferrara in 1929 and graduated in chemistry in his hometown. It is here that he founded the Fedic cinema and came into contact with the world of cinema and with great writers like his compatriots Florestano Vancini and Michelangelo Antonioni.
He also directed in Ferrara the first short films shot with Ezio Pecora and Renzo Ragazzi, ending in 1956 in his second house, the Rai. Here he comes in as a collaborator and leads the first surveys.
At the same time, Sani is engaged in journalistic activity. He writes from Germany for the weekly Epoca magazine and Mondadori group magazines and, subsequently, still in the first half of the 1960s, he collaborates for other magazines such as Il Mondo, La Fiera Letteraria , He Ponte
he moved to Rome. Between 1965 and 1999, he published his most important work, such as the investigation of the film for Rai (The collapse of an empire, Persia, the anniversary of 39, an empire, Italy at war, Prisoners, Italian prisoners) and television series like The war at the peace table
The municipality and the province of Ferrara, with the collaboration of the Institute Ferrara of Contemporary History and Ariosto Clbadical High School, on the occasion of its eightieth anniversary, had dedicated an initiative entitled "Mbadimo Sani, a director of Ferrarese in front of history" articulated in three days in November 2009. The author showed his gratitude, donating his entire archive to the Institute of Contemporary History of his city.
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