“The best man in the world” won the award for best documentary at the Abruzzo Documentary Festival. The film by Angelo Figorilli and Francesco Paolucci, dedicated to Carlo Tresca, received the recognition of the event today.
The docufilm is a gift that Figorilli, from Sulmona, wanted to give to his city and his fellow citizen, “exiled” from Sulmona in 1904 for his ideas. Imagining and putting on the screen, among extraordinary cartoon graphics, a long-distance dialogue between his city and Maggiani: not a historical reconstruction, in short, but a sentimental portrait.
Having immigrated to the United States at the beginning of the twentieth century, Carlo Tresca denounced bosses and mafiosi in the Stars and Stripes newspapers, in a period characterized by strikes and protests by immigrant workers in America. A free mind. Too inconvenient for the FBI, which considers Tresca among the most dangerous subversives on American soil.
A gunshot, fired perhaps by fascists, perhaps by mafiosi, perhaps by fascist mafia, took his life on January 11, 1943, in New York. At his funeral, a procession of eighty cars loaded with flowers and thousands of people. Workers, weavers, intellectuals, artists, writers mourn what was defined as “the best man in the world”.
