Nathalie Giacobino

Through letters, diaries and personal testimonies, an account of the complexity and variety of experiences of LGBT Italians during the Fascist dictatorship of Benito Mussolini (1922-43); intimate words that contrast with the lyrics of popular songs and the propaganda of the time, obsessed with extolling the myths of virility, femininity and motherhood and constrained by sexual repression.

July, 1941. After the beginning of the German invasion, an Italian soldier, a veteran of the colonial wars, is sent to the Soviet front. As he remembers the fairy tales his Russian mother used to tell him, the train he is travelling in crosses Europe on its way to the vast Ukrainian plains, where the enemy and a cruel winter await him… (Based on the experiences of several Italian soldiers.)

A história do cinema italiano sob o fascismo, uma indústria cinematográfica sofisticada construída em torno da fundação dos estúdios Cinecittà e do nascimento bem-sucedido de um star system doméstico, povoado por artistas muito peculiares entre os quais se destacaram várias atrizes belas, magnéticas e especiais; uma história negra de guerra, drogas, sexo, censura e tragédia.

Exclusively made of documentary archive footage, the film captures the parable of the young people who took part in the extra-parliamentary political battles in Italy between 1967 and 1977 and whom, with their passions and dreams as well as their violent acts, followed the idea of a revolution in an attempt to “storm Heaven.”