TELEVISION IN SPAIN

When Politti arrived in Madrid, only two television channels existed and both belonged to RTVE, Spanish Radio and Television. Although he had not had any great presence on television, the second channel of the chain, commonly known as UHF, made him offers on various occasions once he had become a well-known actor in Spanish cinema. His most important work was undoubtedly on the television version of George Bernard Shaw’s “Pygmalion” which also featured Marilina Ross. In the adaptation, produced in 1979, Politti played Alfred Dolittle and Ross played his daughter, Eliza Dolittle. Curiously, the two Argentine actors spoke with their native accent while the rest of the cast spoke with their own Spanish accent. That same year, he worked in the comedy “Esta noche, tampoco” by José López Rubio, playing an actor who passes for the American millionaire Richard Williams. In 1979 he also participated in “La gallina ciega”, an adaptation of the novel by Miguel Angel Asturias that was broadcast within the series “Escrito en América” and directed by Alfonso Ungría. The cast was topped off with Claudia Gravi, Miguel Narros and Yolanda Farr. On the same program he worked under Emilio Martinez Lázaro in another adaptation of Miguel Angel Asturias’ work titled “Cadáveres para la publicidad”, as well as in a Spanish television version of “Rosaura a las diez” by Marco Denevi. Notable is the fact that Politti had already worked on the latter text in a version that Sergio Renán did for Argentine television on “Las grandes novelas”.
                                                                                                                                                                               

Gabriel Lerman   
 

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