Country: Italy
Year: 2004
Duration: 40
Max Weber wrote that a social class is defined as a community of destiny. This is the main point that has distinguished the battle of Melfi and the story told by this film: it was not only a union trade struggle on salary, on the difficult work shift and the thousands indiscriminate punishments. There was something more: a community of men and women from the South who fought for their rights of renewed dignity as citizens and workers, that after ten years, at last recognized a common destiny.
"I have the feeling that the workers' protest in Melfi against such hard and unjust working conditions has gained the public's sympathy. Today more than what would have happened yesterday, because in times of social and economic crisis like the one we are in, the social body identifies in a stronger emotional way with the ones who contrast this situation." (S. Consiglio)
Biography
film director
Stefano Consiglio
Stefano Consiglio (Rome, 1955) works as assistant director with Giuseppe Bertolucci, Roberto Benigni, Giulio Questi, and he makes documentaries on the locations of the films of Sergio Leone, Ettore Scola and Richard Donner, broadcast by RaiTre. In 1990, besides making several short films, he starts to work at the programme Mixer, where he makes many reportages. In 1991 he directs La camera da letto, film version of the poem by Attilio Bertolucci, who plays in it, and they screen it at Mostra Internazionale del Cinema in Venice in 1992, together with the TV film, Le strade di princesa in 1997. Between 1999 and 2002 he works for RAI, directing documentaries.
FILMOGRAFIA
Stefania Sandrelli Story (cm, 1990), Lampi d'amore - Storie di donne che amano troppo (cm, 1990), La camera da letto (1992), Voci per un dizionario cubano (doc., 1996), Le strade di Princesa (TV, 1997), Il nostro futuro (doc., 2002), L'uomo flessibile (doc., 2003).