Accio and Manrico are siblings from a working-class family in 1960s Italy: older Manrico is handsome, charismatic, and loved by all, while younger Accio is sulky, hot-headed, and treats life as a battleground — much to his parents' chagrin. After the former is drawn into left-wing politics, Accio joins the fascists out of spite, but his flimsy beliefs are put to test when he falls for Manrico's like-minded girlfriend.
Рим, 1978 год. Молодая женщина Кьяра вместе со своим другом переезжает на новую квартиру. Внешне ее жизнь кажется размеренным, рутинным существованием, но ее коллега Энцо начинает подозревать, что за спокойной уравновешенной видимостью таится нечто иное. На самом деле, Кьяра скрывает, что является членом итальянской подпольной экстремистской террористической группировки «Красные бригады», которая планирует похитить бывшего премьер-министра и убить за его предполагаемые преступления. Мы видим события глазами Кьяры — она то чувствует себя потерянной, то испытывает страх, путая реальность и вымысел. Осуществление плана началось, но постепенно выясняется, что не так-то просто держать в плену крупного политика, когда страна погружена в кризис.
On December 12, 1969, a bomb kills 17 people at the Piazza Fontana national bank in Milan, Italy, marking the beginning of the Years of Lead. Local anarchists are scapegoated for the massacre by police and the media, but a lone prosecutor uncovers a conspiracy of far-right groups, corrupt secret services, and other interests that seek to undermine democracy.
В лесу под Миланом обнаружен труп школьницы, дочери известного профессора, которую перед смертью изнасиловали. В другое время эта шокирующая новость вышла бы на передовицы газет. Но сейчас, во время парламентских выборов, главный редактор ультраправой «Джорнале», занят стихийными вылазками молодых анархистов, выступлениями экстремистских групп - всем, что может дискредитировать коммунистов. Однако ситуация принимает иной оборот, когда в деле школьницы отчетливо прорисовывается фигура некоего Марио Бони - парня из группы левых экстремистов...
Бурные политические события конца шестидесятых годов, прокатившиеся по всей Европе, оставили особый след в Италии. Радикальные Красные Бригады, приверженцы насильственного свержения власти, были организованы на волне студенческих протестов 1968 года. «Первая линия» (Prima Linea) была одной из таких террористических группировок, основанная в конце семидесятых, она отличалась особо радикальными методами.
Террорист, несколько лет проведший в джунглях Южной Америки и разочаровавшийся в левом движении, возвращается в Италию, надеясь начать респектабельную жизнь.
On March 16, 1978, far-left terrorists of the Red Brigades kidnap Aldo Moro, leader of the Christian Democracy, the ruling party in Italy since the end of WWII. 55 days later, his body will be found in the trunk of a car. This is a neutral and factual account of what happened in between.
Bologna, 1976. The paths of two aimless young friends intertwine with those of Radio Alice, a pirate radio politically aligned with the leftist student movement.
Bologna, 2002. Amidst protests against the labor reform, the assassination of a lawyer opens old wounds between Italy and France. Former far-left terrorist Marco, convicted of murder during the Years of Lead and living in Paris since then thanks to the Mitterrand Doctrine, is suspected of being its instigator. When the Italian government asks for extradition, Marco goes into hiding with his daughter Viola, precipitating also the life of his family back in Italy.
Much-censored documentary encompassing thirty years of Italian politics under the governance of the Christian Democracy (DC), entirely composed of — occasionally dubbed — archival footage.
Who is the mysterious stranger Cecilia met on the street? Why is he suspicious of everyone? She is happily married, has a lovely child and a good job: yet she decides to join him and to become his lover, sharing his destiny right up to its tragic conclusion.
The film is the result of a planned trilogy about the kidnapping and murder of Aldo Moro by the Red Brigades first announced by director Grimaldi in 2003: shot in the UK on a low budget, the project was never completed because of lack of funding and other issues, and the existing footage from the first two planned installments was condensed into a single movie and released on DVD in 2009.
June 27, 1980: a DC–9 flying over the Tyrrhenian Sea breaks up mid-air and crashes near the Italian island of Ustica, killing all 81 people on board. The official version blames the "structural failure" of the plane, but a young journalist smells a cover-up and starts fighting to break free the truth from the 'invisible wall' of lies built by politicians and air force higher-ups.
Italy, early 80's. A political terrorist is being transferred northward from Sicily for a conjugal visit; during the journey, a police captain tries to make him cooperate.
Waiting for the train that will take him away, a man goes back over moments of his small-town upbringing: the relationship with his family, his involvement in the protests of 1968 and a childhood friend died too soon.
Young radical Riccardo returns home after hiding in South America for five years, only to find out that his comrades either gave up their ideals or turned to drugs, while all they fought for seems to have set the stage for near-anarchy.
It's moving day for the Via Marsili 19th apartment in Bologna, Italy, a former hotbed of the Movement of 1977. While waiting for the movers to finish their job, cultural agitator Franco Bifo Berardi leads us through a decade-long trip down memory lane.
Investigations carried out over 20 years on the attacks in Italy in the late 1960s, particularly the Piazza Fontana bombing, leading to the accusation of the extreme left. Ultimately, a collaboration between the Italian secret services and the CIA had created a paramilitary organisation inspired by the Greek colonels of the ‘67 coup, designed to halt the “communist threat”.