Between 1969 and 1984, more than 230 innocent men, women and children were killed in Italy in bomb attacks on banks, trains, railroad lines and stations. Over 500 people were injured and maimed.
Convinced from the outset that the attacks could only have been carried out with the support of domestic and foreign secret services, Dario Fò wrote the play INCIDENTAL DEATH OF AN ANARCHIST in 1970. It is the true story of a Milanese railwayman who fell from the window of the fourth floor of Milan’s police headquarters during an interrogation about an incident in Piazza Fontana. His death was officially described by the police as an “accident”.
Since the end of the 1960s, Dario Fò has publicly accused the successive Italian governments of covering up the attacks and preventing the responsible authorities from tracking down those behind the bombings (attacks on the civilian population).
The film tells of the background to the crimes in Italy in the 70s and 80s: Dario Fò and his wife Franca Rame travel from Milan to Rome to the various sites of the bombings. The survivors of the attacks organize a demonstration in Milan in which they call on the Italian government and the population not to accept the reality of the corrupt strategy of tension in post-war Italy.
Excerpts from the film DIDICI DICEMBRE (THE FIFTH DECEMBER), which was made in 1970 in close collaboration with Pier Paolo Pasolini, will be shown for the first time.

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