Saturday 29 October at 5.30 pm it will be presented in Rome, in the Audiovisual Archive of the Labor and Democratic Movement – Sala Zavattini, in Via Ostiense 106. Introduced by Vincenzo Vita (president Aamod), while talking with the curator Valentina Fortichiari, Antonio Medici, director of the Prize Zavattini and the Gian Maria Volontè School; Stefania Parigi from the University of Roma Tre and finally Marina Piperno, film producer. The extremely topical theme was a constant in the existence of a great intellectual and man of the cinema, who spent himself with inexhaustible obstinacy for a pacifist culture. “La pace” according to Cesare Zavattini, is published by La Nave di Teseo, with an afterword by Gualtiero De Santi.
In the room dedicated to him, as president of the Audiovisual Archive, the meeting will discuss this “atlas of Peace”, composed of scripts and ideas for films, speeches, public letters and messages to friends, with many unpublished materials, to tell the tireless contribution to civil life of a master of Italian literature.
The volume collects – through different materials – forty years of civil commitment against war, including invocations, ideas, projects, interviews, appeals to humanity and battles, which saw Za – as he was called – at the forefront with a commitment socio-political and a civil, moral, humanitarian task, which today no protagonist of history, after Gandhi, Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela, no commentator, activist or intellectual of our country – appears inclined to pursue with equal consistency.