'The King Who Never Was' Director on Reconstructing the Murder Investigation Involving Italy's Last Heir -- and Her Connection to the Case
documentary, on a hot August night he became enraged when some loud “shitty Italians” “borrowed” the dinghy off his yacht and tied it to another nearby boat. Fuming, he took a rifle, went to one of their boats and, after shots from his rifle rang out – that were just meant to scare – someone got hurt. Dirk Hamer, a 19-year-old sleeping on another boat nearby, died of gunshot injuries in early December.
I remember how frustrated I was as a child hearing the reasons why we should all look the other way. Later in my life, when I was a journalist for Italian daily Il Fatto Quotidiano, I probably became too obsessed with this case. I wrote some pretty aggressive articles that lacked the necessary balance that I think I have now found in this documentary series
It took me ages to convince him to be part of the doc. Creating a rapport with Vittorio Emanuele was probably the hardest part of this project. He had sued me after I had published a video of this confession. It was a long legal battle that I eventually won. We had a terrible rapport. I started contacting everyone I knew who had a rapport with him. I bombarded him with emails and letters. So, exasperated, he said: talk to my son, Emanuele Filiberto.
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