The Communists and the Country, 1966 (16mm negative, scan 2K/Sound)

Location: Rome, Italy; Turin, Italy Creator: Andrea Frezza Chronicle of the XI Congress of the PCI, held in January 1966, at the Palazzo dei Congressi at the EUR in Rome. 01. Total packed room, delegates applaud, Luigi Longo and Mauro Scoccimarro enter 02. Rep Palmiro Togliatti on stage during the previous congress 03. Images of Togliatti's funeral. Umberto Terracini commemorates Togliatti 04. Those present observe a minute's silence 05. Longo's report (some parts are original) 06. Typist, journalists 07. Inq various delegates 08. Images of the Vietnam War, inq by Lyndon Johnson and Robert McNamara 09. Photos by Pietro Nenni and Aldo Moro. Inq Giulio Andreotti and Mario Scelba 10. Celerini in action during a workers' demonstration in Turin 11. John XXIII during the Second Vatican Council; photo by Paul VI 12. Presidency Overview: Terracini, Luciano Barca, Rossana Rossanda, Emilio Sereni, Luciano Lama; Giancarlo Pajetta, Achille Occhetto, Enrico Berlinguer, Giorgio Amendola 13. Inq, among the guests, Riccardo Lombardi 14. Longo on stage, applause. Inq Franco Ferri. Armando Cossutta, Mario Alicata and Emanuele Macaluso on the presidency benches 15. Photo exhibition in the lobby; the bar 16. Total empty conference room 17. External, arrival of delegates 18. Speech by Mikhail Suslov, member of the political office of the CPSU. Suslov donates Lenin's bust to the congress 19. Total packed room, several of the delegates 20. Book stalls in the lobby 21. Speech by Tullio Vecchietti 22. Interview with Fernando Santi, member of the management of the PSI 23. Interview with an English journalist (Phillis Resnet?) 24. Interview with Renato Guttuso 25. Interview with the poet Alfonso Gatto 26. Inq Lelio Basso while talking to Longo. Inq Mimise Guttuso and Mauro Scoccimarro 27. Speeches (without origin) by: Agostino Novella, Massimo D'Alema, Giorgio Amendola, Sergio Garavini, Achille Occhetto, Pietro Ingrao, Bruno Trentin, Giancarlo Pajetta, Nilde Iotti, Mario Alicata, Lama, Berlinguer 28. Delegates applaud 29. A delegation of former Garibaldi Brigade fighters donates Longo a gold medal 30. Ugo Pecchioli reads a message from Vietnam 31. Speech by Jacques Duclos, manager of the PCF 32. Outside, Longo gets out of the car and heads towards the entrance of the Palazzo dei Congressi 33. Closing report by Longo (original sound in part) 34. Inq Camilla Ravera, Terracini, Novella, Lama, Enrico Berlinguer, Nilde Iotti, Giorgio Napolitano 35. Delegates vote by show of hands 36. Leaving the delegates from the room, inq Renato Zangheri