A glimpse of the city from the top of the Pirelli skyscraper still surrounded by scaffolding and the DJ of Radio Milano International, a symbol of the spread of free broadcasters.
The images that frame a crucial fifteen years, the period from 1960 to 1975 in which Italy changed its skin, leaving behind the tradition, the backwardness and the deep marks left by the war to face modernity, with all the the prices to be paid for this challenge.
To tell the country from the effervescence of the economic boom at the start of the bloody season of terrorism is the exhibition 'Interesting years', promoted by the Archivio Luce and Roma Culture until October 16 at the Museum of Rome in Trastevere, through the eyes of a small group of great masters and, above all, the
Enrico Menduni, the curator, chose 124 images to compose the identikit of the new Italy that was taking shape between wealth and possibility, growth in the north and depopulation in the south, well-being and trade union tensions, work and protest marches, marked influence of the Church and the political class, social dramas and a desire for lightness.
Under the eye of the shooting professionals passes an Italy that seems light years away.
The black and white of the news photos, however, draws the profile of a company that tries to break free from ancient habits.
Alongside the poverty of the suburbs and towns, here are the signs of the change in customs, the stars of cinema and song, the 'modern' dances, the frenzy of great public works, the highways and buildings that symbolize the economic miracle,
Lucio Dalla in 1971 in a sports car during the Cantagiro, Luigi Tenco on the stage of the Sanremo Festival on January 26, 1967 a few hours before his death, the Beatles in 1965 in Milan in their only Italian tour, Rita Pavone in 1964 at the airport of Fiumicino, the platform of the Piper nightclub.
A very serious Alberto Sordi appears between a priest and the nuns in a polling station in 1960, the very chaste Miss Italia candidates lined up on the edge of a swimming pool, Florence wounded by the 1966 flood, traffic jams on the roads and the first mass movements for summer holidays.
The images of the street incidents against the Tambroni government in 1960 and Giorgio Almirante pulled in front of a faculty of Sapienza in 1968 speak for the political tensions.
The voice of the women is entrusted to the mature, hooded demonstrators who parade in the early 1970s for the new family law under the explicit banner: "We no longer want to be Adam's rib".
Between the cranes and the cages of the scaffolding here is a pylon under construction between 1963 and 1967 of the Morandi Bridge in Genoa, Piazza Duomo in 1969 on the day of the state funeral for the victims of Piazza Fontana, the courtyard of the Milan Police Headquarters during the simulation to reconstruct the dynamics of the death of the anarchist Giuseppe Pinelli, the Sit Siemens manager Idalgo Macchiarini kidnapped by the BR in 1972, Pier Paolo Pasolini in October 1975 in Sabaudia a few days before being killed at the Ostia seaplane base.
That Italy, Menduni observes, was paying for the delay in
introduction of reforms (gender equality, new codes, divorce ...) "which in the rest of Europe were already part of common sense, but divided the country with us" and it was told according to two parallel lines, "a country by now prosperous and intent to collective holiday and consumerist rituals typical of a well-being about to arrive "and" a restless territory, where old unsolved problems coexisted with new contradictions, also the result of that tumultuous essentially material progress ".
The work carried out in this scenario of unknown agency professionals, destined to run out in the news report and end up in oblivion, now returns to live with strength, showing precious details to understand where today's Italy comes from.
divorce ...) "which in the rest of Europe were already part of common sense, but shared the country with us" and it was told according to two parallel lines, "a country that is now prosperous and intent on collective holiday and consumerist rituals typical of a well-being in about to arrive "and" a restless territory, where old unsolved problems coexisted with new contradictions, also the result of that tumultuous essentially material progress ".
The work carried out in this scenario of unknown agency professionals, destined to run out in the news report and end up in oblivion, now returns to live with strength, showing precious details to understand where today's Italy comes from.
divorce ...) "which in the rest of Europe were already part of common sense, but shared the country with us" and it was told according to two parallel lines, "a country that is now prosperous and intent on collective holiday and consumerist rites of a well-being in about to arrive "and" a restless territory, where old unsolved problems coexisted with new contradictions, also the result of that tumultuous essentially material progress ".
The work done in this scenario of unknown agency professionals, destined to run out in the news report and end up in oblivion, now returns to live with strength, showing precious details to understand where today's Italy comes from.
and it was told according to two parallel lines, "a country by now prosperous and intent on collective holiday and consumerist rituals typical of a well-being about to arrive" and "a restless territory, where old unsolved problems coexisted with new contradictions, the result of even that tumultuous essentially material progress ".
The work carried out in this scenario of unknown agency professionals, destined to run out in the news report and end up in oblivion, now returns to live with strength, showing precious details to understand where today's Italy comes from.
and it was told according to two parallel lines, "a country by now prosperous and intent on collective holiday and consumerist rituals typical of a well-being about to arrive" and "a restless territory, where old unsolved problems coexisted with new contradictions, the result of even that tumultuous essentially material progress ".
The work carried out in this scenario of unknown agency professionals, destined to run out in the news report and end up in oblivion, now returns to live with strength, showing precious details to understand where today's Italy comes from.