Country: Italy
Year: 2000
Duration: 54'
We witness the 1960s and 1970s with a particular focus on the "Hot Fall," seen through the eyes of a CGIL trade unionist. The factories and the workers discussed in his affectionate and ironic way are not only parts of a myth but instruments of higher powers and expressions of a half democracy. As the union organizer narrates, we see stock footage from the epoch and hear the sinuous counterpoint music of a sax.
"The images that tell the story of the battles of the metalworkers' unions towards the end of the 1960's seem to come from so long ago. I was a boy and experienced that agitated autumn through the passionate commitment of my father, who was a union member and the son of a factory worker. Today my encounter with Alberto Bellocchio, the author of the verses of "Sirena Operaia", has helped me to better understand an important moment of Italian contemporary history, a moment that some people would like to treat like stuff from other times" (Gianfranco Pannone).
Biography
film director
Gianfranco Pannone
(Naples, Italy, 1963) graduated in film from Sapienza University of Rome and received a degree in directing from the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia; he lives and works in Rome. His documentaries have participated and received awards at many festivals in Italy and abroad, and have also been broadcast on major European television channels. His works from the 1990s include Piccola America, Lettere dall’America, and L’America a Roma (which compose the Trilogia dell’America), and Latina/Littoria (2001, best documentary at the Torino Film Festival), followed by Io che amo solo te (2004), Il sol dell’avvenire (Red Sunrise, 2008), ma che Storia… (2010), Ebrei a Roma (2012), Sul vulcano (2014), L’esercito più piccolo del mondo (2015), Lascia stare i santi (Leave the Saints Alone, 2016), Mondo Za (2017), and Scherza con i fanti (2019).He is a professor and coordinator of directing for the Master's degree in Film and Television at the Suor Orsola Benincasa University in Naples, and he runs the documentary film laboratory at the DAMS of Roma Tre University. He also collaborates as a professor of directing at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome.
FILMOGRAFIA
La giostra (cm, 1989), Vacanze d'Egitto (cm, 1990), Piccola America (doc, 1991), Kenya (doc, 1995), Lettere dall’America (doc, 1995), Romani - Storie di normale integrazione (doc, 1996), Ritorno a Littoria (doc, 1996), La dama bruna - Gli ultimi giorni di Ciano (doc, 1997), Ombre del sud (1997), L’America a Roma (doc, 1998), Le leggi dimenticate (doc, 1998), Kelibia-Mazara (coregia con Tarek Ben Abdallah doc, cm, 1998), La guerra di Anna (doc, 1999), Così vicini, così lontani (1999), Pomodori - Viaggio nell’identità italiana (doc, 1999), Ferie - gli italiani e le vacanze (doc, cm, 2000), Sirena operaia (doc, 2000), Ferie: gli italiani e le vacanze (2000), Viaggio intorno alla mia casa (doc, 2000), Cerimonie: gli italiani, la Chiesa, lo Stato (2001), Latina/Littoria (doc, 2001) Venezia, la città che affonda (coregia con Marco Visalberghi, doc, 2001), Toscana: lungo il fiume (doc, 2002), Pietre, miracoli e petrolio (doc, 2004), 100 anni della nostra storia (coregia con Marco Simon Puccioni, doc, 2006), Cronisti di strada (doc, tv, 2007), Il sol dell’avvenire (doc, 2008), Immota manet (doc,cm, 2009), Ma che Storia... (doc, 2010), Silvio, One of Us (coregia collettiva, doc, 2011), Ebrei a Roma (doc, 2012), Scorie in libertà - L’incredibile avventura del nucleare in Italia (doc, 2012), Sul vulcano (doc, 2014), L’esercito più piccolo del mondo (doc, 2015), Con Ugo (doc, cm, 2017), Lascia stare i santi (coregia con Ambrogio Sparagna, doc, 2017), Gli altri (doc, cm, 2018), Mondo Za (doc, 2018), Scherza con i fanti (coregia con Ambrogio Sparagna, doc, 2019), Campo 67 (doc,cm, 2020), Dell’acqua e del tempo (doc, 2020) Onde radicali (doc, 2021), Via Argine 310 (2022), Ok boomer (coregia Andrea Gopplero di Troppenburg, doc, 2022).
Cast
& Credits
Director and screenplay: Gianfranco Pannone.
Plot: dal racconto in versi Sirena operaia di Alberto Bellocchio.
Editor: Amato Mastrogiovanni.
Music: Daniele Sepe.
Voice: Alberto Bellocchio.
Production company: Archivio Audiovisivo del Movimento Operaio e Democratico, via Sprovieri 14, 00152 Roma, Italia, tel. +39-06-5818442, fax +39-06-58331365, e-mail aamod@tin.it.
Plot: dal racconto in versi Sirena operaia di Alberto Bellocchio.
Editor: Amato Mastrogiovanni.
Music: Daniele Sepe.
Voice: Alberto Bellocchio.
Production company: Archivio Audiovisivo del Movimento Operaio e Democratico, via Sprovieri 14, 00152 Roma, Italia, tel. +39-06-5818442, fax +39-06-58331365, e-mail aamod@tin.it.