I Malestanti trent'anni dopo

After thirty years from the release of the film Diario di un maestro by Vittorio De Seta, we have come back to the places of shooting to discover the stories of the characters of that time and to describe the social-anthropologic change that has happened in this period of time. Through their testimonies we can reconstruct the experience of Diario di un maestro, in personal and historical-social terms. In fact, the stories of the "Malestanti" (that's how the boys in the film at the time called themselves) tell the phenomena and the social changes that have characterized the poor neighbourhoods of Rome in the last thirty years.

"The availability and sincerity that the boys from Diario have shown telling their stories, even the most difficult ones, have left us helpless; from their words and gestures an extraordinary dignity has emerged, rare to be seen even in much luckier people. This is the aspect that we really care about, and we hope we have been able to preserve it and present it in our documentary" (C. Di Mambro, L. Mandrile, M. Venditti)