(January 24, 2017) A meeting with one of the most interesting Italian politicians and intellectuals in decades: Monday, January 30 the Italian Institute of Culture in Vienna hosts Walter Veltroni. A meeting that will get the IIC public closer to Veltroni, who will also present his latest book entitled “Ciao” (published by Rizzoli, 2015). Veltroni will talk about his relationship with writing and with cinema, which among other things, saw him as the founder of the Rome Film Festival in 2006. After the presentation of the book there will be a screening of the film “Quando c’era Berlinguer”, which came out in 2014 and of featured Veltroni as screenwriter and director. The loneliness and success of Berlinguer in his years as secretary of the Italian Communist Party from 1972 until his death during a rally in Padua on June 11, 1984, all seen through the eyes of a then young Veltroni. All this is “Quando c’era Berlinguer”, a documentary made by former Democratic Party leader in 2014. The unpublished archive material, will be accompanied by interviews with the protagonists of Italian and international politics as Napolitano and Gorbachev and images shot in Sardinia in the places dear to Berlinguer. (Red)
