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Alan O'Leary
Cinema has played a key role in articulating the impact and legacies of the so-called anni di piombo in Italy, the years of intra-national political terrorism that lasted from 1969…
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Commissioned by Algerians and made by Italians, with dialogue in Arabic and French, The Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo, 1966) is a classic of political cinema, equally influential to art-house…
The legacy of Italy’s experience of political violence and terrorism in the anni di piombo (‘years of lead’, c. 1969-83) continues to exercise the Italian imagination to an extraordinary degree…