December 25, 2012


The anonymous popular housing block of Sesto San Giovanni, the neighborhoods and streets of Lambrate, the industrial plants like the former Innocenti, the workers and their daily toil; the trade union struggles, the protestations, the demonstrations and the street riots. The fog that makes days sadder. Milan is always on the background of Romanzo Popolare, a motion picture directed 1974 by Mario Monicelli (and written together with Age and Scarpelli) with a cast of actors such as Ugo Tognazzi, Ornella Muti and Michele Placido. The story of Giulio Basletti (Ugo Tognazzi), a Milanese metalworker and union militant, his passion for Vincenzina (Ornella Muti), a girl from Southern Italy, much younger than him, who left her native village to look for work; their marriage and happiness, a baby and, then, the dramatic ending of their love story when Giulio finds out she has cheated... (continuer)