A man saved Italy's war memories on film before they vanished forever.
A portrait in seven fragments of Paolo Gobetti, an eclectic figure who, amid his tireless activity in Italian cinema and cultural landscape, founded the National Film Archive of Resistance (Archivio nazionale cinematografico della Resistenza, ANCR).
Direction
Gaglianone's fragmented structure mirrors decaying memory itself.
Editing
Seven segments that refuse easy chronology—demanding active viewing.
Director
Daniele Gaglianone
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
ANCR remains one of Europe's most significant partisan film collections, preserving over 2,000 hours of footage that state archives initially ignored.
Gobetti was son of liberal anti-fascist Piero Gobetti, assassinated by Fascist thugs in 1926—this film is implicitly a son reconstructing his father's interrupted world.
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