Red Sunrise (Il Sol dell’Avvenire)
Reggio Emilia, 1969. Thirty young militant communists leave the Communist Party, accusing it of having betrayed the ideals of the Resistenza, and, together with other young people of anarchic, socialist and catholic extraction, they form l’Appartamento, a commune nourished by revolutionary dreams.
But from the Appartamento soon emerged the most dangerous terrorists of the future Red Brigades: Alberto Franceschini, Tonino Loris Paroli, Prospero Gallinari, Roberto Ognibene, Lauro Azzolini.
Reggio Emilia, autumn 2007. Some of the ‘boys from 1969’ meet up at the hill-side restaurant where 40 years ago the Appartamento group took the decision to begin their armed struggle. They are ex-Red Brigade members now, living normal lives after spending many years in prison in different parts of Italy. So why, all those years ago, did they decide to take such a difficult and dangerous path?
Probably the first Italian film to deal with the taboo subject of the political and ideological roots of left-wing terrorism.
To read our interview with director Gianfranco Pannone, click here.
To read what Roberto Purvis, independent filmmaker and documentarist, says about Red Sunrise, click here.
