Friday 28 July on Canale 5 in the late evening “Tiziano Terzani: the journey of life”

Friday 28 July on Canale 5 in the late evening “Tiziano Terzani: the journey of life”.

Friday 28 July, in the late evening, Canale 5 remembers Tiziano Terzani, 19 years after his death, with the unpublished docufilm «Tiziano Terzani: the journey of life».

Thanks to a work that lasted two years, the director and journalist Mario Zanot delves into the figure of the great journalist and writer, retracing the most significant stages of his story.

Born in Florence in 1938, destined to be a mechanic like his father, Terzani became one of the most popular journalists and writers of our time.

In the docufilm, through his own voice, together with that of Monica Guerritore, Tiziano Terzani leaves his eternal message of peace and tells the incredible journey of his life.

After graduating from the Normale di Pisa and being hired at Olivetti, he made his journalistic debut in Ferruccio Parri's Astrolabio in 1966. A scholarship opened the doors to Columbia University in New York, where he chose the degree course in International Affairs. In 1968 he moved to California to attend Stanford University, where he learned Chinese. At the end of 1969 he began his internship in the editorial office of Il Giorno. In 1972 he settled in Singapore, opening Der Spiegel's first office. From 1974 to 1975 he collaborated with Il Messaggero and in 1976 he began writing for Repubblica, Eugenio Scalfari's new newspaper. After four years in Hong Kong, in 1979 he moved to Beijing: first correspondent for a Western magazine, anticipating TIME and Newsweek. Subsequently, he moved to Tokyo and then settled in India.

Struck by intestinal cancer, he reacts to the disease with the same journalistic spirit as always, traveling and observing the techniques of the most modern Western and alternative medicine. It will be the most difficult journey. Having realized the implacability of evil, Terzani concentrates on the search for inner peace, in Asia, and spends his last days in Orsigna, on the Pistoia Apennines. Here, death takes him peacefully, at just 65 years of age.