Director: Cecilia Mangini
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Country: Italy
Year: 1965
Duration: 29’
Subject: starting from the female models proposed by the cultural industry—cinema stars and models from fashion weeklies—the documentary seeks its protagonists among factory workers, peasant women, home-based workers, day laborers, migrants, and housewives; among elderly women and very young girls who take care of housework and childcare while their mothers are at work; workers participating in trade union struggles to defend their jobs, against dismissals, against exploitation in factories and the countryside, and against the use of home-based work to violate labor laws; workers participating in struggles for peace, for the defense of freedom and democracy, alongside all democratic and progressive citizens.
Type: Documentary
Format: DVD
Language: Italian
Notes: Source; Production: Unitelefilm; Photography: Luciano Graffigna. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awxFiu5eRxg Cecilia Mangini narrates
Availability: www.cinemadipropaganda.it