Davide Lajolo

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Michele, a bourgeois intellectual, adhered to fascism for years. After fighting abroad, he returns home in 1943, but is now tired and refuses to join the Republic of Salò. His comrades still want him with them, but this Social Republic, imposed by the SS arms, does not convince him. The war continues and the situation does not allow one to remain neutral.

The documentary reconstructs the writer's experiences in Brancaleone, in the province of Reggio Calabria, quoting extensively from letters published in the book Il vizio assurdo (The Absurd Vice). In search of references between past and present, various images of Brancaleone flash by.

Vittorio Cottafavi's television film Gente delle Langhe, consisting of three episodes, L'eremita (from the Cesare Pavese story of the same name), La torta di Riccio (from a chapter of Una questione privata by Beppe Fenoglio), Incontro con il padre (from the book Come e perché by Davide Lajolo).