Country: Italy
Year: 2001
Duration: 31'
We see the human and professional experiences of Maria Teresa Arisio, an office worker at Fiat in Turin from 1961 to 1994. Her father was an office worker at Mirafiori. As a child she went to Fiat summer camps and received a present from Fiat every Christmas. For her, beginning to work for Fiat as an adult was the fulfillment of a dream. She identified with the company. She took part in the march of the 40,000 on October 14, 1980, which resulted in unemployment for 23,000 workers while the managers and office workers returned to work quietly. They kept on working until January, 1994, when a new restructuring of the company struck the office workers too and 3,000 employees, including Maria Teresa Arisio, were fired. It was then that Maria Teresa began to understand, went back in her thoughts, and changed her mind.
"I met Maria Teresa Arisio during the shooting of Mimmo Calopresti's Tutto era Fiat. Her story and her way of telling it struck me right off. It was as if she were talking of a love affair, hers for Fiat, who had betrayed and abandoned her" (Giovanna Boursier).
Biography
film director
Giovanna Boursier
Giovanna Boursier (Turin, 1966) since 1992 specializes in the history of the partisan struggle in Italy and of the persecution and extermination of gypsies during the Second World War. During these same years, she has also been worked as historical consultant for the documentary films of Mimmo Calopresti, Claudio Paletto, and Guido Chiesa. She has curated exhibitions and audiovisual events. In 1999 she worked as an interviewer for Steven Spielberg's Shoah Foundation.
FILMOGRAFIA
Giovanna Bousier: Via dell'Idroscalo (2000), I giorni dell'R60 (2001, co-regia Mauro Morbidelli e Guido Albonetti), L'aria di Monfalcone (2001), L'Idroscalo un anno dopo (2001, co-regia Maurizio Iannelli), Signorina Fiat (2001).
Cast
& Credits
Regia, soggetto e sceneggiatura: Giovanna Boursier.
Director of photography: Andrea Campi.
Editor: Roberto Paoletti.
Music: Danilo Cherni.
Cast: Maria Teresa Arisio.
Production company: Piccola Cooperativa Gagè c/o Studio del Carmine, via Alberto Nota 7, 10122 Torino, tel. +39-011-5214159 e +39-011-883289; Archivio Audiovisivo del Movimento Operaio e Democratico, Roma; Fiom.
Director of photography: Andrea Campi.
Editor: Roberto Paoletti.
Music: Danilo Cherni.
Cast: Maria Teresa Arisio.
Production company: Piccola Cooperativa Gagè c/o Studio del Carmine, via Alberto Nota 7, 10122 Torino, tel. +39-011-5214159 e +39-011-883289; Archivio Audiovisivo del Movimento Operaio e Democratico, Roma; Fiom.
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