Fatti, non parole: Le Donne Armate di Sergio Corbucci a confronto con il trauma degli anni di piombo

Hajek, A. (2015) Fatti, non parole: Le Donne Armate di Sergio Corbucci a confronto con il trauma degli anni di piombo. In: Jansen, M. and Urban, M. B. (eds.) Televisionismo. Narrazioni Televisive Della Storia Italiana Negli Anni Della Seconda Repubblica. Series: Innesti/Crossroads. Edizioni Ca' Foscari, pp. 123-134. ISBN 9788869690440

Abstract

Since Italy’s transition to the Second Republic in the early 1990s, a period marked by attempts to come to terms with the traumatic experience of the violent 1970s, cinema and television have increasingly been (ab)used for the re-writing of national history, often within a revisionist framework and for the promotion of reconciliation processes. The miniseries Donne armate (Sergio Corbucci, 1991) is one such attempt to work through the trauma of political violence. Produced in the same period as Sergio Zavoli’s TV documentary La notte della Repubblica, where former terrorists from both sides of the ideological specter are offered the chance to publicly express their personal reflections, Donne armate also promotes a discourse of reconciliation, bringing together two women from different sides of the law: a female terrorist and a police woman. However, this attempt at reconciling the nation with the terrorists of the past goes beyond the symbolic union between the two women, who eventually collaborate in order to dismantle a criminal organization set out to kill both women. It is also the casting of Lina Sastri in the role of the terrorist, calling back memories of an almost identical role she played in Giuseppe Bertolucci’s Segreti segreti (1984), that emphasizes the idea of reconciliation, Sastri’s character in Donne armate giving evidence of a moral rehabilitation that lacked in Bertolucci’s film. Drawing, among other things, on theories of cultural memory and trauma, this article then discusses – through an analysis of both Donne armate and a number of films and TV programmes broadcast in the early 1990s – the political potentialities of television in processes of healing and national reconciliation.

• Item Type: Book Sections (Other)
• Status: Published
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Hajek, Dr Andrea
• Authors: Hajek, A.
• Subjects: D History General and Old World > DG Italy
• College/School: College of Arts & Humanities > School of Modern Languages and Cultures > Italian
• Publisher: Edizioni Ca' Foscari
• ISBN: 9788869690440

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