Country: Italy
Year: 2002
Duration: 60'
March 11, 1977 in Bologna. During some scuffles in the area around the university, a Carabiniere kills Francesco Lo Russo, a student. This sets off violent, city-wide battles between the police and young people, ending only when armored cars enter the fray. The next day, the Carabinieri intervene and end the brief history of Radio Alice, the network which was accused of directing the students' battles. It was the first (and only) time in the history of the Italian Republic that an editorial masthead is closed down manu militari. The most famous Italian free radio station lasted barely two years, two years which left their mark.
"Almost 25 years after the fact, Radio Alice is still the radio of the independent unionists, the voice of the battles which turned the regional capitol of Emilia Romagna upside down in March, 1977. And yet, anyone who looks into its history, following the faint traces it has left, will easily discover that aggression not only didn't belong to its history, but it was far from its communications plans as well" (G. Chiesa).
Biography
film director
Guido Chiesa
Guido Chiesa (Turin, 1959) moves
to USA in 1983 where he works for Jim Jarmush, Amos Poe, Michael Cimino and
Nicolas Roeg. Back to Europe, in 1990 he directs his first long feature film,
Il caso Martello, winner of the Grolla d'Oro at the Mostra del Cinema in
Venice as best first work. His second long feature, Babylon, has won the
FIPRESCI prize at the Turin Film Festival. He has made some of the most
important historical documentaries in Italy, like: Partigiani, on the
memories and the meaning of Resistance in Italy; Nascita di una
democrazia, on the making of the Italian Constitution. In 2000, his Il
partigiano Johnny is screened at the Mostra d'Arte Cinematografica in
Venice.
FILMOGRAFIA
Give Me a
Spell (cm, 1985), Black Harvest (cm, 1986), Il caso Martello
(1991), Civiltà (cm, 1992), Il tempo dei sogni (cm, 1993),
Babylon (1994), Memorie da una fabbrica (1994), Torino in guerra:
1940-1945 (1995), 25 aprile: la memoria inquieta (1995), Quei
momenti eroici (1988-1995) (cm, 1995), Materiale resistente (1995,
co-regia Davide Ferrario), Rane culatelli & lucciole: la pianura di
Bertolucci (1996), Ritratti d'autore: i fratelli Taviani (1996),
Partigiani (1997, co-regia Davide Ferrario, Antonio Leotti, Daniele
Vicari), Petali di candore Marlene Kuntz '96-'97 (1997), Nascita di
una democrazia (1997), Volare - La grande trasformazione (1998),
Un giorno di fuoco (1998), Una questione privata. Vita di Beppe Fenoglio (1998), Non mi basta mai (1999/2000, co-regia Daniele Vicari), Il
partigiano Johnny (2000), Provini per un massacro (2000), Alice è
in paradiso (2002), Sono stati loro. 48 ore a Novi Ligure (doc.,
2003).
Cast
& Credits
Regia, soggetto, sceneggiatura: Guido Chiesa.
Director of photography: Gherardo Gossi.
Ricerche e interviste: Alessandro Marucci.
Animazione: Achtoons.
Effetti e grafica: Federico Triulzi.
Music: Federico De Robertis, Theo Teardo.
Editor: Luca Gasparini.
Production company and Italian distribution: Carlo Cresto-Dina per Fandango, via Ajaccio 20, 00198 Roma, Italia, tel. +39-06-85354026, fax +39-06-85353790, www.fandango.it, e-mail fandangodoc@tin.it.
Co-production: Tele+, Milano; Regione Emilia Romagna.
Director of photography: Gherardo Gossi.
Ricerche e interviste: Alessandro Marucci.
Animazione: Achtoons.
Effetti e grafica: Federico Triulzi.
Music: Federico De Robertis, Theo Teardo.
Editor: Luca Gasparini.
Production company and Italian distribution: Carlo Cresto-Dina per Fandango, via Ajaccio 20, 00198 Roma, Italia, tel. +39-06-85354026, fax +39-06-85353790, www.fandango.it, e-mail fandangodoc@tin.it.
Co-production: Tele+, Milano; Regione Emilia Romagna.