Maurizio Nichetti turns 75: success with «Ratataplan», what he does today, 8 secrets

«Okay, Milan is a bit bitter to drink…/ but it’s beautiful to love in the evening/ in the morning, running/ on days of bitter cold/ unexpected sunshine/ overcast skies/ streets full of things to do / (…) Why do I work in Milan?/ Working elsewhere would seem strange to me». Just today Maurizio Nichetti, visionary actor and director, turns 75: he was born in the Lombard capital on 8 May 1948. “I arrived in Piazza Insubria when I was four years old and from the first day I went to the balcony”, he said in his «Involuntary autobiography» released in 2015. He made his stage debut at the age of 10, «as an imitator at the party in the PCI section, in a courtyard in Calvairate, where the “Musichiere” was played». After scientific high school he enrolled at the Milan Polytechnic, where – in 1975 – he graduated in architecture. And this is not the only curiosity about him.