Director: Rosalia Polizzi
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Country: Italy
Year: 1976
Duration: 33′
Subject: documentary produced for the electoral campaign of June 20, 1976, dedicated to women’s issues and therefore addressed to the female electorate. It consists primarily of interviews with women on central issues of the women’s question: voting, equal opportunities, employment, abortion, their rights, and so forth. It is edited with important archival footage of women’s struggles and demonstrations they led; there is also archival material relating to the 1946 elections (in which the Republic won) with Palmiro Togliatti voting; a demonstration for the advancement of the PCI in the elections of June 15, 1975, in which Enrico Berlinguer gave a speech.
Type: Documentary
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Language: Italian
Notes: Source; text Bianca Bracci Torsi, Raffaella Fioretta; photography Mario Barsotti; camera assistant Giancarlo Ridolfi; sound Massimiliano D’Ottavi; editing Carla Simoncelli; speaker Gabriella Genta
Availability: Audiovisual Archive of the Workers’ and Democratic Movement