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MEDIASET APPOINTMENTS DEDICATED TO THE "DAY OF MEMORY"

• : STUDIO APERTO SPECIAL "LA NOTTE DELLA MEMORIA" • RETEQUATTRO: “DEFIANCE, I GIORNI DEL CORAGGIO” • IRIS: “LA VITA E’ BELLA” • JOI: SPECIALE ”LINEA D’OMBRA” • PREMIUM CINEMA: “OGNI COSA È ILLUMINATA” • : “IL PIANISTA”

From 26 to 28 January 2011

Mediaset will celebrate the Day of Memory (Holocaust Remembrance) with a series of appointments involving both the generalist and DTT channels.

Starting with Retequattro, iin prime time on 26 January, with the first showing of the film "Defiance, i giorni del coraggio", starring Daniel Craig, and based on the true story told in the novel by Tec Nechama "Gli ebrei che sfidarono Hitler".

Iris, on 27 January, from 12.30 until well into the night, will run a film marathon dedicated to the Shoah. Including, in prime time, the Oscar-winning "La vita e bella", by and starring Roberto Benigni.

Joi, at 9.50 pm, will broadcast a Special "Linea d'ombra", with an interview with Boris Pahor, the intellectual from Trieste, originally from Slovenia, who has been several times nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature, and Arrigo Levi, who in 1942 was obliged, with his family, to seek refuge in Argentina in order to avoid certain deportation. Between one contribution and the other, at 10 pm, the channel will show the short film "The Bigger Picture", dedicated to deportation in the Holocaust.

Premium Cinema, in the late slot, will show the film "Ogni cosa è illuminata", the adaptation for the cinema of the novel by Safran Foer, in which he describes his journey tracing his grandfather's footsteps after he was obliged to flee his native Ukraine for the United States, and "Eden", directed by Amos Gitai.

Studio Universal, also in the late slot, will show the Oscar-winning "Il pianista", by Roman Polanski, starring Adrien Brody. Based on the autobiographical novel of the same name by Wladyslaw Szpilman, it tells the story of the Jewish pianist from the outbreak of the Second World War up to the liberation of Warsaw by the Red Army.

Finally, Italia 1, on the night between 27 and 28 will broadcast a Studio Aperto Special "La notte della memoria", an extended reportage by the long-standing history specialist of Italia 1 news, Gabriella Simoni.

Cologno, 25 January 2011