Ciao, 2020! (2020)

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Ciao, 2020! is the New Year's edition of the Evening Urgant program, which aired on Channel One on 30 December 2020.

Production

The show, hosted by Ivan Urgant as pseudonym Giovanni Urganti, is a parody of the traditional Soviet, and later Russian, TV show Little Blue Light through the reconstruction of popular Italian music programs of the 1980s such as Drive In, Popcorn, and Discoring. According to Urgant, the film crew felt connected to old Italian music festivals as the artists changed songs and sang in Italian.

The program reinterprets popular Italian dance moves and songs at that time. The show included fonts closely associated to the 1980s as well as neon lamps and Italian fashion at the time: mustaches, baggy clothes, long hair, shoulder pads, leggings, sequins, Lurex, and animal prints. Musical numbers are interspersed with sketches.

References to Italian popular culture are not limited to historic music programs and festivals. For example, the musical number "Credo" is inspired by the film The Taming Of The Scoundrel. The lyrics of some songs contain references to places, people, and events that were relevant at the time of the program's release.

On 26 February 2021, the Warner Music Russia label released the album CIAO 2020, which included 12 tracks.

On 25 June 2021, in the final episode of the program, Vittorio Saltichieri's "Notte Bianca" was shown, filmed in St. Petersburg during the white nights in the style of Ciao, 2020!. The original song is a composition performed by Viktor Saltykov, "White Night", and the clip contains references to the movie The Incredible Adventures of Italians in Russia.

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