Goffredo Lombardo, the owner of Titanus, said that the movies made in the 1960s starring Gianni Morandi and Caterina Caselli had saved his production company. In fact, their movies cost little to make and scored big at the box office. For the first time, Italian song, which until that moment had been entirely directed at families, even in movies, began to address a decidedly younger audience. The same thing happened with the so-called "shouters": Adriano Celentano, Mina, Tony Dallara. In the mid-1960s, young people's consumption of culture was such a significant phenomenon that it anticipated the protests which would explode in 1968. This documentary uses the voice of the protagonists of the time and the vast archives of the Istituto Luce to recount the complexity of the phenomenon. During that era, simple, unpretentious films became the mirror of a generation and the litmus test of a country undergoing radical change. As Pasolini said, Italy was no longer the same after the economic boom. And those movies helped change it.

Nessuno ci può giudicare

After journeying through the Italy of the "musicarelli" from the 1960s with Nessuno mi può giudicare, Della Casa turns his attention to post-WWII archives. The result is an X-ray of a different country: narrated by the politicians Togliatti and De Gasperi, by the cinema of Germi and Castellani, by the ironical social analysis of Eduardo and Zavattini, by the cultural brutality of Bianciardi, and the wild rhythms of boogie-woogie. A biography through images of an unusual Italy, in constant transformation.

Bulli e pupe

Giovanna Marini has been recounting history and stories with music her whole life. Since 1958, she has been recording and preserving folk songs, composing ballads, music for film, theater and opera. A surprising voice, out-the-box and unconventional, unremitting, for 60 years she has traversed places, struggles and movements throughout Italy with her guitar in her arms. A documentary about and featuring Giovanna Marini, conceived as a film of reflection on the use of the voice, a vehicle for seeking and acting on reality. Through the narration of crucial points in our collective history sung by Giovanna across her long career, we interrogate the memory and the soul of an entire country shared in the present beyond official history.