Rai Documentari presents “Lotta continua”, a docufilm broadcast on Friday 13 January at 21.25 on Rai Tre, which traces the history of the political group of the same name starting from the meeting between the student and worker movements, which took place outside the gates of the Fiat Mirafiori . Produced by Verdiana Bixio for Publispei with Luce Cinecittà in collaboration with Rai Documentari and Rai Play, “Lotta continua” is freely inspired by the book “The boys who wanted to make the revolution” by Aldo Cazzullo, directed by Tony Saccucci (Nastro d’argento for “La prima donna” and special mention at the Nastro D’Argento Doc for “Il pugile del duce”) and written by Andrea De Martino, Eleonora Orlandi and Tony Saccucci. The docufilm is also available exclusively on Rai Play in a docuseries version in four episodes.
At the end of the 1960s, while the anti-system revolution unites young people from all over the world, a revolutionary group was born in Turin. The spark comes from the meeting between the workers of Mirafiori and the exponents of the student movement. The group doesn’t have a name yet. He will take it from the heading of the first flyers distributed at the factory gates: “The struggle continues”. From the first internal Fiat procession to the 1976 elections, passing through the hot autumn, the massacre in Piazza Fontana, the death of Pinelli and the murder of Commissioner Calabresi, the docufilm recounts a crucial decade in Italian history through the words of some of the boys of the time: Gad Lerner, Erri De Luca, Vicky Franzinetti, Marco Boato, Paolo Liguori, Giampiero Mughini, Marino Sinibaldi. After the dissolution of the movement, some have become politicians, journalists, managers. Others have instead preferred to continue the struggle through more violent and dramatic forms, but most of them have simply abandoned political activity.
