Former partisan, poet, playwright, philosopher, myrmecologist. And homosexual. Aldo Braibanti in 1968 was the involuntary protagonist of one of the most sensational judicial cases in post-war Italy. He was sentenced to 9 years in prison on charges of plagiarism, based on an article of the Rocco Code of the Fascist era: the first and only convicted in republican Italy. The court found him guilty of having submitted to his will, in a physical and psychological sense, a student and friend of his recently adult. The boy, at the behest of the family, was locked up in a psychiatric hospital and subjected to a series of devastating electric shocks. Years later, the crime of plagiarism was canceled from the penal code. And Braibanti was pardoned as a former partisan. Amelio, Leone d’oro in 1998 with So we laughedreconstructs the story with rigor and some artistic freedoms The lord of the ants (one of the five Italian films in the competition) with Luigi Lo Cascio (Braibanti), Elio Germano (Ennio, in the role of a journalist fromUnit) and Sara Serraiocco. In the dining room from 8 September.
August 30, 2022 | 07:36
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