Teresa Vergalli, partisan relay in Emilia during the Second World War, later in the front row in women's organizations and in the political struggle of the PCI until the decision to devote herself to teaching; Stefania Casini, an alternative icon of 1970s cinema, who later became a director, documentary maker and producer, and the gynecologist Maria Pia Marroni, who in 1973, in Naples devastated by a cholera epidemic, undertook to administer vaccines. They are among the protagonists in the first of the three new appointments of The Girls, which returns from June 17 in prime time on Rai3 to tell about women from different generations.
The program "was born in 2016 with The girls of '46 for the 70th anniversary of voting for women and went in access prime time, then it became The girls of '68 and eventually landed in prime time - he explains to ANSA. 'author Cristiana Mastropietro, who signs it with her brother Riccardo Mastropietro and Giulio Testa also as co-producer for Pesci battenti -. She had time to fortify herself and create her own language, with a dynamic but in-depth style ". We try "to make the interviews live as much as possible, creating with the packaging and the music, something that is closer to cinema than to television".
In choosing the women to tell "we always want to create a mix of well-known characters with an important story, unknown women, who retrace their lives and also characters who perhaps after having had a strong popularity for a period have preferred to stay away from the cameras" . Many of these stories, "are important and complicated, there are ups and downs. For us it is essential that all are ready to open, always with the utmost respect for the areas of privacy".
Among the women protagonists of the first episode there is also Milena Bertolini, technical commissioner of the Italian women's football team, a presence that also addresses a very current issue, given the recent case of Aurora Leone and the National Singers: "It's a interview carried out for some time, we could not imagine what would have happened a couple of weeks ago, but she tells us for example that when she started playing football, they 'camouflaged' her, as a kid, because you couldn't have a girl in the teams. We do not need an event to trigger the discussion on the rights not yet recognized for women, it is like the air we breathe ". Also in the first episode we will meet Elisabetta Lachina, who lost her parents in the Ustica massacre and has since been committed to demanding justice,and a girl from the New Millennium, Diletta Bellotti, a Roman activist who in the summer of 2019 carried out the #pomodorirossosangue campaign against the exploitation of agricultural laborers in the south. "I find there is still a strong prejudice on young people - explains Cristiana Mastropietro - They are much more committed than we think. Often only the most superficial image that concerns them comes out, that of social media or appearances, but there are many Diletta Bellotti ". Among the interviewees in the next episodes is Rosy Bindi "who talks about herself with great authenticity and depth. Her account of the assassination of Vittorio Bachelet at La Sapienza, with her next to him, is very strong and moving. on a period like that of terrorism ".One objective of the program is precisely "to be able to illuminate a part of the country's history, through the point of view of a woman, whether we are talking about public or private events". A change in the country on the themes of sexism "is felt, but there remain shame for which we are blamed, such as rape. A woman who suffers that type of violence, still has problems telling it, claiming her rights and asking for justice, something that we have told several times ". I still hear the "famous 'if he wanted it' and I read it a lot. I believe that a program like this can make a small contribution to overcome this very serious negative value in a society". At the moment there has been no talk with the network of a forthcoming edition of The Girls "but we would be happy to make it happen,it is a program we care a lot about. I think over time it can become a small encyclopedia of stories from the point of view of women. "