Oriana Fallaci Miniseries Debuts in Italy
Journalist who famously once took off her chador while interviewing Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini gets domestic biopic.
Here in the U.S., we have Oprah. And for many years in Italy, the female media zeitgeist was all about Oriana. A.k.a. Oriana Fallaci. A.k.a. “La Fallaci.”
Her exploits are somewhat unfamiliar to a new generation of Italian bloggers, so a major effect of this week’s two-part Italian RAI-TV miniseries L’Oriana is to remind the Instagram and Twitter set what she was all about. From a report by AFP Rome bureau chief Olivier Baube:
“Telling the story of the life of Oriana Fallaci is a bit like telling the story of the 20th century,” said Marco Turco, director of the miniseries.
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