Memory is not a refuge,
but a responsibility
we must shoulder together
During rehearsals for a theatre production, a group of young actors engage with documents, court rulings and testimonies relating to the years of the massacres in Italy.
The stage becomes a workshop of memory: the past takes shape through doubt, research and discussion.
Preserving this memory is not simply a matter of recalling the past, but a responsibility that every democracy must assume and continue to uphold.
The clock at Bologna station, which had stopped at the time of the neo-fascist attack in 1980, begins to show the correct time once more. Only through the truth can democracy once again point the way to safety.
The purpose of this film.
Disinformation and the manipulation of facts continue to threaten democracies to this day.
The first victim is the truth. does not glorify the past; it shows new generations how historical knowledge is built through documents, sources and verification.
Preserving memory is a responsibility that every democracy must shoulder.
This is why the film is intended as a tool for civic education, not merely as a narrative.
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Not a documentary, not a linear reconstruction. On stage, documents, court rulings and testimonies intertwine, just like the cover-ups they describe.
The actors do not simply re-enact history: they act it out, live, in front of an audience of young people who ask the very same questions as the viewers.
Testimonies, court records and archive documents come to life on stage through young students at a drama school who ‘act out’ the story, whilst historians, journalists and investigators interpret it, piece together the facts, and eyewitnesses recount those days of sorrow.
Paolo Bolognesi
Relative of massacre victims
Davide Conti
Historian
Aldo Moro
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Giulio Guerrisi
Franco Freda
Stefano Skalkotos
Francesca Mambro
Chiara Condrò
Carlo Digilio
Vincenzo Alessio Giangrande
Massimo Giraudo
Carabinieri officer (investigative unit)
Sergio Amato
Familiare di una vittima
Stefania Limiti
Journalist
Vincenzo Vinciguerra
Gabriele Campagna
Nico Azzi
Fernando Cioccia
Mario Amato
Giulio Pampiglione
Alessia Merluzzi
lawyer
Stefano Delle Chiaie
Emanuele Verachi
Gianfranco Bertoli
Luca Gangai
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To schedule a screening
A film designed to be watched and discussed together. Suitable for schools, libraries, local authorities and remembrance organisations.
We offer a screening followed by a discussion with the production team. Given the nature of the themes covered, the discussion with the audience is expected to last as long as the film itself.
Upon request, it is possible to involve the director and cast. Below, you can download the materials available to anyone wishing to bring the film to their community.
Please send your enquiries and availability for a screening to
segreteria@softinn.biz
and we will get back to you as soon as possible