Reggio Calabria, 1970-72 (16 mm positive, scan 2K/sound)

Location: Reggio Calabria, Italy Creator: Armenia Balducci, Franco Borni, Antonio D'Onofrio, Paolo D'Ottavi, Rolando Ferrario, Alcide Mariani, Anna Maria Tatò, Gian Maria Volonté The film traces the facts of the Reggio Calabria uprising and reconstructs, with images of the protagonists and places, the atmosphere of those tragic days of the early 1970s. 01. Title: “Reggio Calabria” 02. PP of workers, peasants, women inhabitants in Reggio Calabria. Bruno Trentin speaks at the assembly. The protesters' buses arrive 03. Intervention by Luciano Lama. Pierre Carniti and Giorgio Welcome 04. The ferry with the protesters enters the port. Lama's voice overlaps the images. PP Lama that continues the intervention 05. The trains arrive at the station. The protesters get off. A roundup on the protesters left on the ferries, they sing a slogan. More coaches, trains and ferries arrive with protesters. They start parade in parade 06. A human chain protects the procession of protesters. The procession parades with signs and banners shouting slogans 07. Piero Battaglia, mayor of Reggio Calabria at the time of the revolt recalls the facts of those days 08. Sign with a piece from an interview with Piero Battaglia by the Press in July 1971. Interview continues with Piero Battaglia. Alternating assembly with Battle inq and arrival of the armed forces in the city marching, with cars and trucks 09. Amedeo Matacena, shipowner, is interviewed. Sign in which a piece from a previous speech by Matacena is reported also known as “the master of the Strait”. At the inq in Matacena during the interview there are alternate inq of people on the streets and at the bar turning to the camera making the fascist greeting 10. Shooting of some moments of the Msi event in Reggio Calabria at night 11. Francesco Franco, called “Ciccio” speaks among the people with a megaphone, mounted on a car. Sign with passage from an interview by Francesco Franco taken from the February 1971 European European 12. Moments of Giorgio Almirante's rally speaking from the stage 13. Police officers and police deployed during Almirante's speech 14. Bruno Labate's mother tells, in front of his son's grave, how he was killed by the police (End of Part One) 15. Militants of the PCI of Reggio Calabria remember the danger and difficulties of the days of the revolt, especially for those who dissent from the riots (Part Two) 16. Some women explain, within the poor homes in which they live, why they followed and believed in Ciccio and voted for it 17. A trade unionist from the Acli 18. Some peasants and workers talk about the problem of the colony and the need for agricultural and industrial reform. Sign with news on the political activity of Marquis Felice Zerbi called “Fefé” 19. Interviews with workers at a construction site for the construction of a factory. A trade unionist starts the first assembly at the construction site for the election of delegates and to discuss the revolt in Reggio Calabria