Before the end. The last days of Enrico Berlinguer world premiere at the Biografilm Festival

The twentieth edition of Biografilm Festival, will bring an important world premiere to Bologna in June. It’s about Before the end. The last days of Enrico BerlinguerOf Samuele Rossithe result of a long research effort aimed at telling a crucial and exciting moment in Italian history.

It was June 7, 1984 when Enrico Berlinguer, during an electoral rally in Padua, felt a clear illness: despite everything, in those moments, he completed his speech to the crowd, but shortly thereafter he fell into a coma for four days, until his death on June 11. On 13 June in Rome the most impressive political funeral in the history of the Republic: two million men and women take to the streets for his funeral, giving rise to an epochal event that has indelibly marked our era.

Before the end. The last days of Enrico Berlinguer wants to restore the collective memory of that event through an emotional and innovative storytelling built with the sole use of archive material coming from national and international archives. The film offers an accurate and renewed narrative and visual reconstruction of those seven days that shocked Italy. It tells with a new perspective a moment of transition and an end: that of a beloved politician, of an entire party, of an idea of ​​a country, perhaps even the end of an era.

The film is produced by Samuele Rossi and Giuseppe Cassaro’s Echivisivi with Cosetta Lagani’s Salice Production and Emanuele Nespeca’s Solaria Film with the support of the Emilia-Romagna Region through the Emilia-Romagna Film Commission.

The long-awaited preview of Biografilm Festival thus fits into the celebrations of the 40th anniversary of the death of the great political leader, interacting with the multimedia exhibition The places and words of Enrico Berlinguer , which will be inaugurated on 11 June in Bologna at the Civic Archaeological Museum, thus reconstructing the political and personal journey through video, photographic materials and original autograph documents. Also presented are the political manifestos developed during the years of Berlinguer’s secretariat, as well as author’s photographs, books and in-depth studies. The exhibition is promoted by the Duemila Foundation, the Renato Zangheri Study Center and the Enrico Berlinguer Association with the patronage of the Municipality of Bologna and the Emilia-Romagna Region.