I: [CR]Coppi film

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From: "The Maaslands" <TheMaaslands@comcast.net>
Subject: I: [CR]Coppi film
To: Classic Rendezvous <Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 20:26:14 -0500

Alan wrote:
> Does anyone on the list have access to a film producer? I remain convinced
> that Coppi's life(poor butchers son/ anti-Catholic in Italy/ the affair with
> the lady in white/ mysterious death) remains one of the great biographies of
> our time, sports or otherwise. I would love to see if a screenplay can be
> done and presented for treatment.

There has been a very nice film Italian-language mini-series treatment made a few years back with Sergio Castellito as Coppi. It would lend itself to translation or perhaps some dubbing or sub-titling.

Steven Maasland Moorestown, NJ

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