Italy. Second half of the fifties. Not much time has elapsed since the Second World War but the wounds of war and destruction are beginning to be a memory. The change in the air you breathe. The well-being seems finally within reach of all the carefree years of economic boom are at the gate.
A recount, critically, that season so eventful, tensions, alterations, there is a small group of documentary filmmakers who make a real instrument of passionate social and cultural struggle. Cecilia Mangini is one of them. Always stubborn, proud nonconformist, the director Pugliese has contributed throughout his career, to build the film's portrait of an Italy rich in humanity, except that the official story, of a world that disappeared, unable to resist the advance of progress, but still had "something to say."
Those things that today's cinema Cecilia Mangini not only valuable evidence of a world long ago, proves to offer to those who have the heart of this story.
Gianluca Sciannameo (Mola di Bari, 1978), journalist and critic, has published a monograph Indies here on earth. Ernesto De Martino and ethnographic cinema (Palomar, 2006) and other essays on the Italian documentary. Low-budget production specialist and author of social documentaries, in 2005 he specialized producer of documentaries. He works as a trainer workshops in film and photography and as an external tutor taught courses in cinema at the University of Basilicata and the University of Bari in 2010, he founded Room to the south, a cooperative of audiovisual production.
Cecilia Mangini (Mola di Bari, 1927) is one of the most important exponents of Italian cinema documentary. He debuted in 1958 with the city Unknowns and later masterpieces such as signature-Stendal they still playing (1960), The singing of Marana (1961), To you we are fascists (1962 - with Lino Del Fra and Lino Micciche) be women (1965). He has directed over 40 documentaries, made reportage photography, film scripts signed. He currently lives in Rome.
