Bread and freedom

Areas - Music & Performing

Bread and freedom Contemporary Drama

Code: 016767

The film recaptures the life of the great trade unionist Giuseppe Di Vittorio, from the death of his father when he was eight and was taken from school to be put in a field as a crow-scarer, to the attack at Bari’s Trade Union’s Headquarters while his wife was giving birth to his son. Passing through the legendary episodes of the first workers’ strikes, to his election as a deputy in the socialist Party and the exile after a sentence of the Special Court. And the political activities from his exile in Moscow and Paris, the Spanish Civil War, the conflicts with the Communist Party which he had joined, his arrest and the historical and political vicissitudes that mixed with his tormented personal ones…