Arrives on the big screen a film about the tragedy of the DC9 Itavia of Ustica

It comes to the big screen a film about the mystery, and tragedy, of the disappearance of the DC9 Itavia of Ustica.

On 27 June 1980 a DC9 airline Itavia with 81 people aboard, including passengers and crew members, disappeared from the screens of the control radar without giving any emergency signal. It was sunk between the islands of Ponza and Ustica, no survivors. After 36 years, this tragedy becomes a movie: Ustica, by the director Renzo Martinelli, an Italian-Belgian co-production, starring Caterina Murino, Marco Leonardi, Lubna Azabal, Tomas Arana and Federica Martinelli as main performers. The film, presented this morning in Rome, was filmed in Tuscany, Rome, Sicily and Basilicata, and got the Cinema Fund of the Tuscany Region, having recourse, for the filming, the Toscana Film Commission. The filming took place in Tuscany at Poggio Ballone, the military  radar center that also controlled the glimpse of sky where the Itavia DC9 crashed. The crew shot scenes also in some interior in Grosseto and, in Castiglione della Pescaia, for shooting the Red House Ximenes in the Natural Reserve Diaccia Botrona.