The first Christmas of Ficarra and Picone arrives tonight on Canale5. The film is a journey through time that takes the two comedians to the time of Jesus’ birth in Palestine. The Christmas movie directed by and starring Valentino Picone and Salvatore Ficarra takes place in the year 0 of the Christian era and was filmed mainly betweenItaly and the Morocco🇧🇷
Filming locations in Morocco
The film The First Christmas of Ficarra and Picone tells a beautiful historical adventure of the genre We just have to cry. The protagonists, Picone who plays the Pastor Dom Valentino and stay as the relic thief Exceptare catapulted to Bethlehem, Palestine, at the time of Jesus’ birth. Many scenes in the film set in Palestine were filmed in Morocco, in ouarzazate, not far from the Sahara desert and immersed in the Dadès valley. Ouarzazate is famous as if the cinematic wings and in fact they appeared here Atlas Corporation Studios where many important movies were filmed.
Film locations in Italy
The film The First Christmas of Ficarra and Picone was shot mainly in Morocco, but some scenes were also shot in Italy, in Sora and Arpinoin the province of Frosinone🇧🇷 The film begins with Picone playing the parish priest of the village of Rocca di Mezzo Sicula, which is actually the village of Arpino with the church of San Vito Martyr which rises within the cyclopean walls of the acropolis.
It is precisely in the province of Frosinone, and precisely on the acropolis of Civitavecchia of Arpinothat take place in the opening and closing scenes of the film, which insert Ficarra and Picone in 2019. The Acropolis of Arpino is one of the rare examples of polygonal work from pre-Roman times and is among the best preserved in history with its pointed bowthe only one left from the time in the Mediterranean area.
Other shots in Italy were made in Sora, still in the province of Frosinone, in Lazio and in neighboring and imposing Rome with its characteristic monuments that easily descend to Ficarra and Picone at the time of the nativity.
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