Year: 2011
Duration: 56'
On January 13 and 14, 2011, a referendum called by FIAT’s managing director, Sergio Marchionne, asked the workers to choose whether they should accept the new labor conditions and continue to work, or not accept them and, thus, close down the company’s headquarters in Turin. It is a momentous turning point: bypassing the negotiating table with the unions, the workers and employees are being asked to decide firsthand whether or not they should lose their job, in the second case sacrificing the rights they had won through years of union battles – rights they thought they had acquired for good. “Sic Fiat Italia is the final act of a dramatic and sad history involving hundreds of thousands of Italian workers, not just metal workers, who have been forced to accept unbearable working and salary conditions in recent years. The film traverses and recounts twenty years of history of the working world, using clips from other films I made starting in 1991. I hope it helps to further the reflection on the working world and on the state of Italy in the Berlusconi era.”
Biography
film director
Daniele Segre
Daniele Segre (Alessandria, Italy, 1952) began his career in photography, before debuting as a director in 1976 with the documentary Perché droga. He published the book of photographs Ragazzi di stadio and founded the production company I Cammelli. In 1983, he directed the feature-length fiction movie Testadura, which competed in Venice. It was followed by other films, including Manila Paloma Blanca, Lisetta Carmi - Un’anima in cammino, presented in Venice in 2010, and Sic Fiat Italia, which was presented at the 2011 Torino Film Festival, where in 2014 he also presented Il viaggio di Carlo, in 2015 Morituri and in 2016 Nome di battaglia donna.
FILMOGRAFIA
Perché droga (coregia/codirector Franco Barbaro, mm, doc., 1976), Ragazzi di stadio (mm, doc., 1980), Testadura (1983), Vite di ballatoio (mm, doc., 1984), Manila Paloma Blanca (1992), Come prima, più di prima, t’amerò (mm, doc., 1995), Sto lavorando? (mm, doc., 1998), Via due macelli, Italia - Sinistra senza unità (2000), Volti - Viaggio nel futuro d’Italia (tv, doc., 2002), Vecchie (2002), Mitraglia e il verme (2004), Conversazione a Porto (doc., 2006), Morire di lavoro (doc., 2008), Lisetta Carmi - Un’anima in cammino (mm, doc., 2010), Je m’appelle Morando - Alfabeto Morandini (mm, doc., 2010), Sic Fiat Italia (doc., 2011), Il viaggio di Carlo (cm, doc., 2014), Morituri (2015), Nome di battaglia donna (doc., 2016), Ragazzi di stadio, quarant’anni dopo (doc., 2018)
Cast
& Credits
regia, montaggio/director, film editing
Daniele Segre
soggetto/story
Daniele Segre, Maria Teresa Soldani
riprese e suono a Mirafiori/shooting and sound in Mirafiori
Emanuele Segre
postproduzione, assistente di montaggio/postproduction, Editing Assistant
Maria Teresa Soldani
produzione, distribuzione, vendita all’estero/production, distribution, world sales
I Cammelli
