With the loop in the film The Risorgimento was primarily chosen to reflect two opposing visions of the unification of Italy: an epic chorus, the other critical time to emphasize the gap between intelligentsia and people, between south and north.
The debate on bottom-up participation enterprise renaissance has taken shape, especially after the Second World War. The thought of Antonio Gramsci, who was spreading his vision with staff on intellectualism and reflections on the concept of people-nation and national-popular culture, the influence of resistance training in the Republic, contributed to look to the past century differently, with the will even closer to the real country in all its complexity. We wanted to find a new force, an identity on a larger scale, and, through a retrospective look, put a sharper focus to the Southern question, and because of the slippage from the sense of national belonging to the fascist nationalism.
Moreover, in years of a very heated political and social debate (from 70's post-war years), major social changes, when the unions are claiming through the rights of workers, many intellectuals wanted to fight for a society at large and responsible civic participation, and find the link between country and democracy. The story is
always subjected to the reading of the past through the present. The Risorgimento makes no exception. On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the birth of the Italian State, many initiatives are in place: these constitute a body to understand the idea that today, 2011, the Italians young and old people of their country.
The contribution of cinema to the contemporary debate on the Risorgimento, and the identity of the Italians, it was amazing.
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