To greet 2020 and welcome the new year with laughter, Sky proposes to spend the New Year in the company of Gigi Proietti, to remember one of the most loved actors by the public who left us in 2020. The reference channel will be Sky Cinema Comedy with three films airing on Thursday 31 December, starting at 19.15 with "The prize", the comedy directed and starring Alessandro Gassmann, that sees Proietti in the role of the protagonist Giovanni Passamonte, a writer who is awarded the Nobel Prize for literature and sets off on an exhilarating road trip with his son to collect the prize in Stockholm.
In the early evening, at 21.00, the cult film will be broadcast "Horse fever" directed by Steno, Where Proietti ed Enrico Montesano interpret the famous characters of "Mandrake"Ed"Er Ointment“, Two of the three friends who, to pay the debts to their creditors, try to falsify the outcome of a horse race, deciding to replace the jockey just moments before the race begins. To follow, at 22.40, the film "The mortadella" signed by Mario Monicelli, with Sophia Loren e Danny DeVito, where the character played by Loren, a Neapolitan worker named Maddalena, gets stuck at the New York airport, where she is on her way to reach her boyfriend, due to a mortadella that cannot pass customs
Movies are also available in the collection on demand "New Year's Eve with Gigi Proietti", which will also include "Pinocchio" di Matteo Garrone, in which Proietti played Mangiafuoco, and other films broadcast on Premium Cinema channels, among which "Brancaleone at the Crusades" di Mario Monicelli with Vittorio Gassman in the role of Cavalier Brancaleone from Norcia. In addition, they are also available "The pleasant nights " with Vittorio Gassman, Ugo Tognazzi and Gina Lollobrigida, "I don't know you anymore love" with Monica Vitti and Johnny Dorelli, "The unleashed" with Vittorio Gassman and a cameo by Carmelo Bene, "If you allow, let's talk about women" by Ettore Scola with Walter Chiari, Vittorio Gassman and Mario Brega.
