Without asking permission

The March of the 40.000, which in 1980 sealed the fate of Fiat and its workers, the city of Turin, and Italy as a whole, could have easily been stopped, or even prevented from starting, argues Pietro Perotti in the documentary he made with Pier Milanese.

His super 8 films, his photos, his recorded tapes prove it.

But also his sculptures, first in papier-mâché and then in foam rubber, have become a symbol of the political and trade union struggle in Italy since those Fiat days, when creativity was the fruit of a collective effort to communicate with irony and in a visible manner.

There were 70.000 workers at the Fiat Mirafiori plant. The entire city pulsated to the rhythm of the factory.

Peter Perotti He tells us about that factory, through what he filmed for everyone.