The Constitution and us. The Constitution is Us, 1978 (16mm negative, scan 2K/Sound)

Location: Imola, Italy Creator: Paquito Del Bosco Made on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the Italian Constitution, the film highlights - through concrete cases - how constitutional norms are not abstract legal principles, but concern all the political, social, civil, economic and cultural activities of citizens' lives. The reconstruction of “typical days” of four characters - a pensioner, a student, a worker and a farm laborer - allows us to go back to the general framework of the Constitution of our country in main lines, which foreshadow a democratic structuring of Italian society, not yet implemented in its fullness, but already firm in the conscience of citizens. 01. Pp by Emilio Frascali, pensioner, inside a room used for breeding pigeons, while speaking 02. Inq di Frascali playing bowls with other elderly people 03. Frascali talks to a sheep farmer, inside a fold and outdoors. Overview of Badlands 04. Overview of the experimental field of the local Agricultural Council, “Mario Neri” Consortium; a man collects peaches 05. Interni, interventions by some members of the Consortium 06. Night, a group plays Celtic music 07. PP by student Roberta Franchini 08. Roberta with other students in front of the “Alborghetti” State Professional Institute 09. Roberta and her family (mother, father and grandfather) sitting at the table in the backyard 10. Roberta plays volleyball and table soccer (foosball) 11. Roberta and her boyfriend walk in public gardens 12. Interni, Roberta participates in the school board of the “Alborghetti” (delegated decrees) 13. Roberta on a scooter 14. Roberta visits two factories: Sacmi (machines for working ceramics) and Cognetex (machines for the textile industry) 15. Cognetex worker, Gigliola Ferretti, talks about her career 16. Inq di Gigliola having coffee with two colleagues and talking to a union delegate 17. Gigliola attends a meeting in the Town Hall on the economic situation of the factory 18. Gigliola at the Cognetex gates listens to a trade unionist's speech 19. Gigliola walks in the market square, enters the registry office and does the shopping at the supermarket 20. A group of farmers picks onions 21. Farmer Walter Vandelli talks about his work in a cooperative 22. Peasants in the fields with harvesters 23. Vandelli in the kitchen of the house, in the administrative offices of the cooperative and at the bar 24. PP di Frascali talking about the Resistance and Fascism in the Imola area 25. PP by Vandelli talking about the struggles for work and for the control of the placement 26. Pp di Frascali talking about the role played by the National Liberation Committee for the resumption of work at Cognetex 27. Pp di Gigliola talking about his first experiences of trade union struggle in the factory 28. Pp di Frascali talking about the struggles for peace in the post-war period 29. Pp di Roberta talking about the delegated decrees 30. Some repertory photographs 31. Interni, PP by Luigi Ladaga, Deputy Secretary General of the League for Autonomies and Local Authorities, while talking about the film and the League's objectives