Screening of Fiat, Autumn 1980 by Pietro Perotti and Pier Milanese

On the occasion of the 4th edition of the film festival “Gandhi's glasses, We will remember the autumn of forty years ago, a fight to the bitter end against the layoffs of thousands of workers by Fiat. The city council, the Piedmont Region, and countless citizens stood in solidarity and support; on October 10, 1980, the nationwide general strike of all categories involved more than nine million workers. Lest we forget what was one of the greatest moments of workers' subjectivity the documentary will be screened in the history of our country Fiat, Autumn 1980 by Pietro Perotti and Pier Milanese (2000, 53′) in the presence of the authors.

A new, unedited and updated version of the film will be screened, which integrates, in addition to the material shot on super8 film by the then worker Piero Perotti, excerpts from interviews conducted at the Fiat gates by Roberto Buttafarro and Marco Revelli. The story is an exceptional and powerful document of a workers' struggle whose dynamics and outcome helped change the face of a city and the lives of many people.

This is the first step in a more ambitious and broader project dedicated to Fiat's other history, that of the workers who worked there, from the birth of the Turin-based industrial giant to the present day. A sort of workers' homeland, where understanding market strategies and financial operations isn't important, but rather telling stories and keeping alive a memory that's almost always hidden or forgotten..
Pierfranco Milanese

Monday October 12   21,00 al Cinema Lux (Galleria San Federico 33, Turin). At the same time the film will be available for streaming free on streeen.org.
The event is organized in collaboration with Wanting the moon e Streeen the platform for streaming independent and arthouse cinema.

The exhibition is part of the Festival of Nonviolence and Civil Resistance 2020.