ITALIA
LA FABBRICA DEI TEDESCHI
2008 – 35mm, HD – b/n, colore - 90’
Regia Direction: Mimmo Calopresti
Sceneggiatura Screenplay: Mimmo Calopresti, Cristina Cosentino
Fotografia Photography: Paolo Ferrari
Montaggio Editing: Raimondo Aiello
Musica Music: Riccardo Giagni
Scenografia Set design: Alessandro Marrazzo
Suono Sound: Sandro Zanon, Remo Ugolinelli, Roberto Remorino Gambotto
Interpreti Cast: Valeria Golino, Monica Guerritore, Luca Lionello, Rosalia Porcaro, Vincenzo Russo, Giuseppe Zeno,
Silvio Orlando
Produttori Producers: Simona Banchi, Valerio Terenzio
Distribuzione Distibution: Istituto Luce
SYNOPSIS
A documentary film, reporting through witnesses and interviews the ThyssenKrupp tragedy, in which seven people were killed in the night between 5th and 6th December 2007. In the prologue the actors (in black and white) Valeria Golino, Monica Guerritore, Luca Lionello, Silvio Orlando, Rosalia Porcaro, Vincenzo Russo and Giuseppe Zeno play the role of the victims’ relatives and evoke the last moment of simple everyday life before the tragedy. The documentary (in HD) includes the stories of the witnesses, of what happened that night and in the previous weeks and the accounts of the protagonists in the terrible following days.
DIRECTOR STATEMENT
In September 1980 Cesare Romiti, at that time Fiat managing director, illustrates in his speech to the Lingotto shareholders his restructuring plan. It is an ambitious project, based on technological innovation, on the introduction of robotics in productive lines, on a great investment towards modernity, the creation of a spell that would have turned the Factory from a Dante’s circle into a perfect, aseptic technological pole.
The big factory appears as a perfect, safe place, nearly self fuelling, without any human resource: the worker will be a simple supervisor and no longer an operator. But is it really so?
On September 30th 2008 Thyssen Krupp in Turin must be closed and the production is moved to Terni. On December 6th 2007 the working plants are those of a factory that is going to be dismissed: some adjustments would be necessary, some piece should be changed, this is what everybody says, but they all know that at the end of February line 5 will be the fist to be dismantled. Controls and structural interventions would be necessary, not to assure a productive progress but to keep ‘decent’ safety levels for those who still work there.
