Film censorship permanently abolished

(ANSA) - ROME, APRIL 05 - "Film censorship abolished, that system of controls and interventions that still allowed the State to intervene on the freedom of artists was definitively overcome", thus the Minister of Culture, Dario Franceschini, who signed the decree establishing the Commission for the classification of cinematographic works at the Directorate General Cinema of the Ministry of Culture with the task of verifying the correct classification of cinematographic works by the operators.

   The intervention pursuant to the Cinema Law introduces the classification system and definitively overcomes the possibility of censoring cinematographic works: there is no longer an absolute prohibition on going out to the cinema or on conditional exits for cuts or modifications.

The Commission is chaired by the President Emeritus of the Council of State, Alessandro Pajno, and is composed of forty-nine members who have been chosen from experts with proven professionalism and competence in the cinematographic sector and in the pedagogical-educational aspects connected with the protection of minors or in social communication, as well as designated by the associations of parents and animal protection associations.

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