Aldo Fruttuosi

Recently discovered and shown only twice before, Incantati is an alternate ending to Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub’s 2003 film Umiliati — fragment as mini-manifesto.

Conçu en six parties, Kommunisten est un parcours dans l'histoire du XXe siècle, mêlant Malraux et des fragments des films précédents de Jean-Marie Straub.

Excerpts from the novel Donna di Messina (1949 and 1964, 1967) by Elio Vittorini (1908-1966).

A group of men and women have been brought together after World War II, when Italy regained its national and territorial unity. They make up a primitive community which seeks to erase not only the distress created by the war but also the hardships of life, and look to protect themselves from violence, misery and fear. Amid the ruins of this post-war period, these men and women build a new rapport between themselves, between sexes, between generations, between social and geographical origins, between political camps.

Un groupe d’hommes et de femmes de tous âge, rassemblés au hasard de leurs pérégrinations, au lendemain de la Seconde guerre mondiale, quand l’Italie retrouve son unité nationale et territoriale.