(September 4, 2017) The disappearance of Ettore Majorana, considered the greatest Italian physicist in the twentieth century, which took place in March 1938 during a ferry crossing from Palermo to Naples, is one of the greatest Italian mysteries of the last century. The Sicilian genius lives in the film-documentary "Unfindable" by Egidio Eronico, with Francesco Guerra, Nadia Robotti and Ettore Majorana jr, released in Italian halls in April 2016 and distributed by Luce-Cinecittà Institute. The documentary film will be screened on Friday, September 8, at 6.30 pm at the Bioscope Cinema in Maboneng, 286 Fox St, Johannesburg. The event, organized by the Italian Institute of Culture in Pretoria, in collaboration with the Scientific Advisor of the Italian Embassy in Pretoria, is free entry with reservation at iicpretoria@esteri.it. There will be a debate hosted by the Scientific Advisor of the Embassy of Piraeus Sarti. The disappearance of theoretical physics, just 31 years old and without any trace or explanation, after eighty years is still a mistery, despite so many hypotheses. Through documents, repertoire images, testimonies, conjectures and animations in a graphic novel style, Eronico reconstructs not only the supposed last hours of the protagonist but also the pattern of relationships and feelings of a man who was considered a genius and whose unsolved mystery became a paradigm for scientific, political and moral issues that still shakes today’s society. (Red)

ABOUT / EGIDIO ERONICO

Egidio Eronico, born in Rome in 1954, is director, screenwriter and actor. Among his films, Same Blood (1988), Rite of Passage (1990), Precious Year (1993), Metropolitan Fairytales (1997), The Guardian (1999), My Father (2003) and Unfindable (2016).