For the occasion of the Liberation Day Anniversary, the AMNC will present "La lunga resistenza" by Luciano D’Onofrio.

For the occasion of the 73rd Liberation anniversary, the National Cinema Museum Association is organising the screening of the documentary La lunga resistenza by Luciano D'Onofrio. This film is featured in the ambit of a broader multimedial project organised by Cinefonie, with support from the Prime Minister’s Office and produced by AICVAS - Italian Fighters and Antifascist Volunteers in Spain Association (www.lalungaresistenza.it).

The film is about 5,000 Italians who went to Spain between 1936 and 1939, joining the International Brigades (50,000 men from 53 different countries) to fight with the Republic, threatened by Franco, Hitler and Mussolini’s troops, and about how this experience became crucial in the following years during the Resistance in Italy, often sustaining fundamental connections among the GAP, the SAP and the CLN groups. The film will be introduced by its author Luciano D’Onofrio and by Italo Poma, AICVAS president. Moderator, Vittorio Sclaverani, president of the AMNC –National Cinema Museum Association.

Admission 3.00 euro.

Luciano D'Onofrio

La lunga resistenza- 1936-1945 gli antifascisti italiani dalla guerra di Spagna alla Resistenza (The long resistance - 1936-1945 Italian antifascists from the war in Spain to the Resistance)

(Italy 2017, 70’, b/w and col.)

Who were the partisans returning from Spain, in actual fact? What were the aspirations that drove them and how did they return to Italy after the Spanish Republic defeat? A series of brand-new interviews from the early 1990s collates testimonials by some Italians who fought fascism as volunteers during the Spanish civil war.

Wed 25, at 4.00 p.m.