Bandiera Viola 2010 Documentario No Berlusconi Day

Bandiera Viola is a documentary that talks about Silvio Berlusconi and the nefarious influence he exercised in Italy during the years he was in power. It does so through the testimonies collected at No Berluscony Day, an incredible demonstration in which hundreds of thousands of people, perhaps a million, took part in Rome on December 5, 2009, in Piazza San Giovanni. Dario Fo, Franca Rame, Margherita Hack, Giorgio Bocca, Mario Monicelli and many other artists and intellectuals give their testimony from the stage of the event in opposition to the dominant Berlusconi. But the real protagonist is the endless people in celebration, made up mainly of young people, who overcome their fear, after the bloody repression in 2001 at the G8 in Genoa, return for the first time to demonstrate their dissent en masse. And in fact, the demonstrations were not organized by political parties and movements, but by a group of young people completely unrelated to the ambitions and maps of power. Bandiera Viola tells their story, the historic event that they managed to assemble from scratch, their disbelief in the face of the success of an idea launched online, which turned into reality and upset the top-down schemes of doing politics. They were set in motion by a message launched on Facebook by San Precario, an anonymous blogger. The tam tam of the network had done the rest. Thus, for the first time, an incredible mass of people in the flesh came out of virtual reality, who asked the Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, to resign, in order to be able to face before a judge, like any other citizen their own legal troubles.