Il sol dell’avvenire

Created, written and carried out by Giovanni Fasanella and Gianfranco Pannone

Directed by Gianfranco Pannone

Freely taken from the book Che cosa sono le BR by Giovanni Fasanella and Alberto Franceschini

Produced by Blue Film with the Contribution of Italian Ministry of Culture, Regione Lazio FILAS, Emilia Romagna Film Commission

Distribution Blue Film

SYNOPSIS

Reggio Emilia,1969. Thirty young militant communists leave the Communist Party, accusing it of having betrayed the ideals of the ‘Resistenza’. Accompanied by numerous anarchist and socialist, they form L’Appartamento, a community in which revolutionary dreams can still exist. Emilia Romagna, 2007. Some of this men meet in the same restaurant, where forty years earlier they decided to take up arms. They discuss the dramatic events that sent some of them to prison for several years, along with their motivation at the time and the choices they made. Il Sol dell’Avvenire is the first Italian film to explore the ideological and political roots of the far-left’s terrorism.

Nastri d´Argento 2009: Nomination Best documentary film

Locarno International Film Festival 2008: Official selection Ici & Ailleurs

London International Documentary Festival 2009: Official selection

Mostra Internacional de Cinema de São Paulo 2009: Perspectiva Internacional

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