Monday 22nd of May 2023 at 18.00 – Italian Institute of Culture, Pavilion Hall
“Signorina Effe” is a 2007 Italian drama film directed by director Wilma Labate.
The film was inspired by Giovanna Boursier’s documentary Signorina Fiat. Emma Martano, born to a working-class family of southern origin who moved to Turin, is employed by FIAT in the IT sector.
She has worked since she was a child to try to emancipate herself, now she is about to graduate in mathematics and is about to marry Silvio, a widowed manager of the Turin company with a daughter.
It was September 1980, FIAT announced that it was firing 15,000 workers and the long, extremely hard strike that would last 35 days began.
During the strike she meets Sergio, a worker with whom she lives an intense but short love story. This flirtation will destabilize his resolutions for social climbing and emancipation, as well as marriage.
The film will be screened in Italian with English subtitles.
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