Rossellini to help celebrate 150 years of Italian unification
As the fate of Cinecittà Luce still hangs in the balance – ''As of today, we don’t know if we’ll survive until the end of the year", the Managing Director Luciano Sovena said yesterday (see news) – the institution is nevertheless participating in the celebrations for the 150 years of the Risorgimento (Italian unification) on March 17 with film events.
March 16 will see the simultaneous screenings in the cities that were once Italian capitals – Turin, Florence and Rome – of two films on the Risorgimento: the animated short La Lunga Calza Verde by Roberto Gavioli and Gianfranco Pannone’s documentary ma che Storia…, both distributed by Cinecittà Luce. Ma che Storia… will also play in Reggio Emilia, the city where the Italian flag was conceived in the late 18th century.
For a schedule of screenings, please click here.
The Rome Fondazione Cinema and the Casa del Cinema, in collaboration with the National Cinematheque, will also present Roberto Rossellini’s Viva l’Italia, a film on the Expedition of the Thousand military campaign by Giuseppe Garibaldi, shot in 1961 for the centenary of national unification.
(Translated from Italian)
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