The Invisible Ones

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The Invisible Ones
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Directed by Pasquale Squitieri
Written byPasquale Squitieri
Nanni Balestrini
Italo Moscati
Story byPasquale Squitieri
Sergio Bianchi
Produced by Achille Manzotti
CinematographyGiuseppe Tinelli
Edited byMauro Bonanni
Music by Renato Serio
Release date
  • 1988 (1988)
LanguageItalian

The Invisible Ones (Italian : Gli invisibili) is a 1988 Italian drama film written and directed by Pasquale Squitieri. It is loosely based on the novel Gli invisibili by Nanni Balestrini. [1]

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The film was entered into the main competition at the 45th edition of the Venice Film Festival. [2]

Plot

At the beginning of the eighties, Sirio, a young worker of the Terni steelworks with a past in student protesting, decides to abandon his job to join an extreme left-wing group. Although he declares himself contrary to the armed struggle following the decision by some elements of the group to carry out terrorist actions, he is arrested upon being caught with his best friend Apache.

Although there is no real evidence of his guilt, Sirio is promised freedom only if he will talk about the organization and his companions. He refuses, and is subsequently transferred to a maximum security prison where he meets some of his companions (including Apache) and the Professor, a far-left philosopher considered the main inspiration of the movement. Life in the special prison seems to be better than in the penitentiary until, following a revolt led by some extreme leftist militants and sedated by the Special Intervention Group of the police, maximum security is re-established.

These events will lead Sirio to estrange himself more and more from reality, until he finally loses contact with the outside world.

Cast

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References

  1. Roberto Chiti; Roberto Poppi; Enrico Lancia. Dizionario del cinema italiano: I film. Gremese, 2000. ISBN   8877424230.
  2. Sauro Borelli. "Una storia invisibile". L'Unità . 6 September 1988.