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1959. The president of ENI, Enrico Mattei asked
Joris Ivens, the director of Nieuwe Gronden, to make a film criticizing
the American influence in the field of the extraction and refining of idrocarbun
fuels in Italy. After contless discussions and negotiation, Ivens worked
with Valentino Orsini and the Taviani brothers in shooting the film, l’Italia
non è un paese povero. However, RAI refused to broadcast the whole
film, maintaining that it gave a particularly crud image of Italy. After
many negotations, the documentary was to be broacast in a censored version
and titled “Estratti di un film di Joris Ivens”.
This middle-length film ains to recostuct that
particular historical-politaical moment trough the testimony of Valentino
Orsini, the Taviani brothers, Giovanni “Tinto” Brass (who worked as assistent
director), as well as trough other interviews and trough the documens of
the Joris Ivens Fondation, the archives of ENI and RAI and Alberto Moravia
Fondation. |
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