FRAMMENTI

January, 1991: one hundred years after Antonio Gramsci Jr. shut in within four walls. Next, there are five Gramsci scholars of different ages and nationalities on a sea cruise. Pieces of letters, articles, and pages from The Notebooks are inside and outside of them human action, human suffering, "necessity" and "liberty" in the reason and in the emotion of "a fighter who did not have luck in the struggle at hand". There is no "everpresent city" with its hellish background noise around them. Instead, there are only the sky and the sea, the only places where those words' sounds and meanings are free to set themselves up and remain fixed in all their expressive concreteness and disquieting immediacy.

"Simply speaking, it is a little voyage that carries along fragments of the life, thought, and struggle of a revolutionary cut off from the present era by time and space. A little sea trip, on an almostghost ship, where there is no real land. Today like yesterday. Not hoping, thus hoping." (Giulio Latini)

Director and screenplay: Giulio Latini.
Director of photography: Tommaso Branca.
Music: Claude Debussy.
Sound: Alessandro Zanon.
Editor: Stefano Annunziata.
Cast: Antonio Gramsci Jr, Giorgio Baratta, Brita Bock, Johanna Borek, John Cammett, Pina Grimaldi.
Production company: Onda Julik, c/o Giulio Latini, via dei Pampini 6, Roma, tel. 2876084.