It will have its world premiere at Biografilm Festival the documentary film on Tuesday 11 June at 9pm at the Pop Up Cinema Jolly 4K in Bologna Before the end. The last days of Enrico Berlinguerthe new work by Samuele Rossiwhich tells with an unprecedented perspective an event that changed Italy forever, that of the death of the famous secretary of the PCI, which occurred in Padua on June 11, 1984, on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of his disappearance. The documentary film – in competition in the section Biografilm Italia – is the result of long production and research work by Samuele Rossi and Giuseppe Cassaro’s Echivisivi and is co-produced with Cosetta Lagani’s Salice Production and Emanuele Nespeca’s Solaria Film – in collaboration with Sky Documentaries. It will then be in theaters from 13 June, distributed by OpenDDB – Distribuzioni dal Basso, in the main cinemas throughout Italy, from Bologna to Padua, as well as in Milan, Florence and Rome.
“We are convinced that the world can be known and put at the service of man, his well-being and his happiness. The test for this objective can worthily fill a life.” Enrico Berlinguer pronounced these words during his last rally. He was the June 7, 1984 in Padua: Berlinguer felt a clear illness on stage, but despite everything, in those moments, he finished his speech to the crowd. Shortly thereafter he enters coma for four daysuntil the date of his death, theJune 11, 1984. On 13 June the most impressive political funeral in the history of the Republic took place in Rome: they were in two million to take to the streets for his funeral, something never seen before.
Before the end. The last days of Enrico Berlinguer is the new work by Samuele Rossi (already known to critics and the public for the moving portrait of the resistance in La memoria degli altri and for the biographies of Indro Montanelli, Margherita Hack and Carmelo Bene). The documentary represents a linguistic evolution in the path of Samuele Rossi and wants to give back the collective memory of that event through emotional and innovative storytelling built with the sole use of archive material of a multiple nature coming from long-searched national and international archives: a research that lasted 3 years to allow the documentary film to be a work capable of reconstructing with depth and a new perspective one of the moments that it changed republican history forever of our country, a moment of passage and an end. That of a beloved politician, of an entire party, of an idea of the country, perhaps even the end of an era. No comments, no interviews, no posthumous reading: the film offers an accurate and renewed narrative and visual reconstruction of those 7 days that shocked Italy.
