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When Italy wasn't a poor country
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When Italy wasn't a poor country
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| Interviews | 1959. The president
of ENI, Enrico Mattei asked Joris Ivens, the director of Nieuwe Gronden,
to make a film criticizing the American influence in the field of the extraction
and refining of idrocarbun fuels in Italy. After contless discussions and
negotiation, Ivens worked with Valentino Orsini and the Taviani brothers
in shooting the film, l’Italia non è un paese povero.
However, RAI refused to broadcast the whole film, maintaining that it gave a particularly crud image of Italy. After many negotations, the documentary was to be broacast in a censored version and titled “Estratti di un film di Joris Ivens”. This middle-length film ains
to recostuct that particular historical-politaical moment trough the testimony
of Valentino Orsini, the Taviani brothers, Giovanni “Tinto” Brass (who
worked as assistent director), as well as trough other interviews and trough
the documens of the Joris Ivens Fondation, the archives of ENI and RAI
and Alberto Moravia Fondation.
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