Country: Italy
Year: 2000
Duration: 40'


Images and soundtrack of the workers' unrest at Fiat in the Autumn of 1980, thirty-five days of determined confrontation to save their jobs.

"This is the first step of a more ambitious and wide-ranging project dedicated to Fiat's other story, the one of the laborers who work there, from the birth of the industrial colossus located in Turin to today. A sort of worker's Heimat, in which what matters most isn't understanding market strategy and financial operations, but telling the story and keeping alive a memory that is almost always hidden away or forgotten" (Pierfranco Milanese).

Biography

film director

Pierfranco Milanese

Pierfranco Milanese (Alessandria, 1956) began to work in the field of visual communications with the Blood Video group in 1982. In 1990 he co-founded Index, a film and video production company. In 1998 he collected and filmed the testimony and recollections of people who survived the Nazi concentration camps for Spielberg's Shoah Foundation. He had import professional experiences working with Jean Rouch in 1986 and with Robert Kramer in 1998.

FILMOGRAFIA

Pierfranco Milanese: Nica libre (1984), Filo rosso (1996), Tamburi lontani (1996), Paolo Conte e il cinema (1998), Le foglie volano (1999), Il reduce (1999, co-regia Monica Affatato), Fiat, autunno ’80 (2000, co-regia Pietro Perotti), Antonio Calderara e la sua collezione (2001, co-regia Beppe Calopresti), Infanzie (2001), Dal vero: il paesaggismo napoletano (2002, co-regia Beppe Calopresti), Senzachiederepermesso (2014, co-regia Pietro Perotti)

Pietro Perotti

Pietro Perotti (Ghemme, Novara, 1939) was a worker representative of Flm at Fiat from 1969 to 1985 and has always been active in communications concerning the work world using the most diverse means (stickers, newspaper posters, serigraphs, papier-mâché and foam rubber dolls). In 1976 he began work on a documentary in Super8, filming the most important labor conflicts of the time. In 1981, he and Stefano Benni created the production Circo Italia to support the coordination of redundancy payments and in 1986 he was co-author with Marco Revelli of the book and audio cassette Fiat autunno '80, per non dimenticare. In 1999 he contributed ideas and material to help make the film Non mi basta mai by Guido Chiesa and Daniele Vicari.

FILMOGRAFIA

Fiat, autunno ’80 (2000, co-regia Pierfranco Milanese), Senzachiederepermesso (2014, co-regia Pierfranco Milanese)

Cast

& Credits

Regia, soggetto, sceneggiatura e montaggio: Pierfranco Milanese, Pietro Perotti.
Director of photography: Pietro Perotti.
Production company and Italian distribution: Associazione Emilio Pugno, via Porpora 9, 10155 Torino, Italia; Index film & video, via Bligny 0, 10122 Torino, Italia, tel. +39-011-5613581.
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