FELICE CHI È DIVERSO (Happy to be Different) - Panorama

by Gianni Amelio
Italy 2014, 93 min, color and b/w (archive)

produced by Istituto Luce - Cinecittà

with Rai Cinema

and with Rai Trade

with the contribution of Mibac - Direzione Generale per il Cinema

in collaboration with Cubovision of Telecom Italia

 

italian distribution Istituto Luce - Cinecittà

international distribution Rai Trade

 

In the documentary we hear the stories of those who directly experienced the burden of being different, almost invariably obstructed by their own family, mocked at school, excluded by "normal" society.

It's Italy's homosexual world as lived in the 20th century, from the start to the 1980s, when, following certain American movements, the first attempts of "liberation" started spreading.

These people, who are now getting on in years, remember how they lived this situation under Fascism and then in the Second World War, when a veil of silence was drawn over the topic, and people lived in fear and repression.

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