Country: Italy
Year: 2000
Duration: 55'


For the thirtieth anniversary of the bomb in the branch of the National Bank of Agriculture in Milan, the "Committee for Memory and Truth", which unites the associations of the family members of the bomb's victims, accepted an idea of Dario Fo and Franca Rame's. They created a sort of lay procession that crossed the country in a special train that gave color and deep emotion to the public squares of Brescia, Milan, Bologna, Florence, and Rome.

"The story of a train and of how a State abandons its responsibilities towards its citizens. A State that methodically hides the truth about massacres and mass exterminations and doesn't want to find the instigators. The guilty abandonment of 400 victims who have been forgotten by justice and who have been deprived of their right to rest in peace" (Isabella Cagnardi Ciarchi).

Biography

film director

Isabella Cagnardi Ciarchi

Isabella Cagnardi Ciarchi was born in Varallo Sesia (Vercelli) in 1943. Towards the end of the 1960's she collaborated in theatrical and musical productions with Dario Fo, Roberto De Simone and Giorgio Gaber. She has worked as assistant director for advertising, television series and movies (Daniele Segre, Silvio Soldini, Davide Ferrario) and has made industrial documentaries, television services for various networks and overseen videos of theatrical productions. She is now the director of the audio-visual division of the Ernesto De Martino Institute at Sesto Fiorentino.

FILMOGRAFIA

Voglia di «Cuore» (doc., 1992), Le mamme del Leoncavallo (doc., 1993), Chi è Stato? (2000).

Cast

& Credits

Director and plot: Isabella Cagnardi Ciarchi.
Director of photography: Silvia Salamon.
Editor: Claudio Cormio.
Sound: Antonio Riscossa.
Music: Stephen James, Paolo Ciarchi, Federico Sanesi.
Production company: Isabella Cagnardi Ciarchi, via San Marco 18, 20121 Milano, Italia, tel. e fax +39-02-6571389; Silvia Salamon, 32 rue des Francs Bourgeois, 75003 Parigi, Francia, tel. +33-1-42720334, fax +33-1-42724138, e-mail salamon@club-internet.fr.
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