Cecilia Mangini

Antonio Gramsci, who was sentenced to twenty years in prison by the courts fascists, relives the stages of his political career and private life: in particular the founding of the Communist Party, the futile resistance to the offensive of the Right, the marriage, the arrest, the conflict with Togliatti. Discharged from prison for health reasons, died in 1937 at a clinic in Rome. Portrait often didactic, but almost always convincing, one of the fathers of modern socialism. (mubi.com)

It is a documentary film about the main historical, social and political events of the period between 1911 and 1945.

A funeral lamentation is sung by women in a dialect so old that it came from the ancient Greeks who once colonized in that part of southern Italy. (imdb)

The tension between the bright promises of the industrial world and the not-so-bright reality of a young worker in Brindisi.