Giuseppe Pinelli, 1969 (16mm negative, 2K/Sound scan)

Location: Milan, Italy Creator: Nelo Risi Through a series of interviews with Licia Pinelli, Giuseppe's partner, and with companions and friends of the Milanese anarchist who died during the investigation into the massacre in Piazza Fontana, the “work material” made collectively by a group of Italian film authors, aims to reconstruct the most significant moments of that dramatic December 16, 1969 that saw the mysterious death of Giuseppe Pinelli, crashed from the fourth floor of the Milan police station. Together he builds a human and political portrait of a man consistent and firm in his own ideas, an innocent victim of the climate of tension, provocation and repression of which the massacre in Piazza Fontana is one of central moments. 01. Milan, December 1969. Overview from above of a large group of young people who guard, with flags and signs, the house of Giuseppe Pinelli, the public housing of the railway workers. A speaker incessantly denounces Pinelli's innocence. Billboards “For every anarchist who dies another takes his place!” , “Valpreda is innocent”, “No to the reform scam.” Another voice off follows on images of marches and protests. “Calabrians murderer”, protesters repeatedly shout in marches 02. Pinelli's tomb number 434 at the Milan cemetery. In the background, a popular protest song 03. The headquarters of the anarchists at the Ghisolfa Bridge. Inside, a young man, from behind while working on a cycle style, tells who Giuseppe Pinelli was 04. Interview with an anarchist about the violence of the bosses 05. A colleague of Pinelli tells of the intimidation that Commissioner Calabresi had done to the anarchist 06. Other anarchists of the Ghisolfa anarchist circle tell of the wave of persecution they suffered starting from the bombs at the Trade Fair, which broke out precisely on April 25 07. On the walls of old Milan it is written: “Pinelli was murdered” 08. At the anarchist circle in Via Scaldasole, an anarchist tells what happened on the night of the bombs at the Agricultural Bank 09. Interview with another anarchist partner of Pinelli 10. Milan Porta Garibaldi Station sign. Some images of the station. Interview with a railway worker who worked with Pinelli 11. CM in Via Morgantini. Inq from Caffè Aurora. PP of two men sitting in the bar. Interview with a man who had seen Pinelli on December 12 12. Interview with Aldo Palumbo, a journalist for “l'Unità” 13. Interview with Licia Pinelli 14. The phrase “Lament for the Death of G. Pinelli by Franco Trincale sung by the author” appears superimposed