Country: Italy
Year: 2015
Duration: 80'
In February 1967, the prefect of Milan wrote: “These young people increasingly made their appearance, these so-called “longhairs” […]. Their political leaning is primarily anarchic libertarian; others are inspired by non-violence, by conscience objectors. They say they use their brain against every form of bourgeois paternalism, they reject the family with all its obligations and sexual repressions.” The film portrays the birth of the young people’s counter-culture during the period leading up to 1968. The other face of the movement – often neglected by historical narration – which rejected violence and preferred the beat generation and the hippy movement to Marxism.
Biography
film director
Felice Pesoli
Felice Pesoli (Milan, Italy) edited the journal “Video Magazine” during the 1980s and in 1990s was one of the founders of the Invideo festival. A producer and writer of television programs, he has worked as the head of scheduling for Stream and Tele+. In recent years, he has worked above all as the author of TV programs, directing numerous documentaries for the Rai program La storia siamo noi. In 2015 he presented at the Torino Film Festival.
FILMOGRAFIA
Un giro di Walter (tv, doc., 2006), Duilio Loi, vita da ring (tv, doc., 2009), Gigi Meroni. Il ragazzo che giocava un altro gioco (tv, doc., 2010), Mezzo secolo minuto per minuto (doc., tv, 2011), Milanesi del tacco (tv, doc., 2011), A qualcuno piace Fred (tv, doc., 2011), Gli italiani di Albanese (tv, doc., 2012), Credere, obbedire, competere (tv, doc., 2102), Gigi Rizzi, autobiografia di un playboy (tv, doc., 2013), Prima che la vita cambi noi (doc, 2015), Suole di vento - Storia di Goffredo Fofi (doc, 2020).
Declaration
film director
“‘Let’s change life, before life changes us’ was the slogan coined in the early 1970s by the counter-culture magazine ‘Re Nudo.’ This was a way to say that to change the world you don’t have to wait for the ‘sun of the future’ after having taken the ‘winter palace;’ it’s a way of saying that we must change our own way of living by putting ourselves on the line right away, with all the existential radicalism we’re capable of.”
Cast
& Credits
regia/director
Felice Pesoli
con la partecipazione di/with the participation of
Matteo Guarnaccia
fotografia/cinematography
Maurizio Romanelli
montaggio/film editing
Fabrizia Vitaletti
interpreti/cast
Giorgio Cerquetti, Fabio Treves, Massimo Pirotta, Eugenio Finardi, Claudio Fucci, Andrea Majid Valcarenghi, Riccardo Bertoncelli, Emanuele Giordana, Claudio Rocchi, Gianni De Martino, Umberto Fiori, Silla Ferradini, Dinni Cesoni, Giulia Amici, Pietro Spica, Guido Daniele
produttore/producer
Ranuccio Sodi
produzione/production
Show Biz Visual Communications
Felice Pesoli
con la partecipazione di/with the participation of
Matteo Guarnaccia
fotografia/cinematography
Maurizio Romanelli
montaggio/film editing
Fabrizia Vitaletti
interpreti/cast
Giorgio Cerquetti, Fabio Treves, Massimo Pirotta, Eugenio Finardi, Claudio Fucci, Andrea Majid Valcarenghi, Riccardo Bertoncelli, Emanuele Giordana, Claudio Rocchi, Gianni De Martino, Umberto Fiori, Silla Ferradini, Dinni Cesoni, Giulia Amici, Pietro Spica, Guido Daniele
produttore/producer
Ranuccio Sodi
produzione/production
Show Biz Visual Communications
