Piero Montanari
There is an alarm in the alarms of this bleak period Italian, who cares these days all those who care about the culture of our country, already seriously threatened by government cuts to the Entertainment Industry Fund (FUS), and the possible closure of the 'Istituto Luce-Cinecittà because of lack of money. "The situation is very serious - he says the same managing director of Cinecitta, Luciano Sovena, Corriere della Sera in an interview a few days ago - "Cinecittà danger of closing and funding cuts also threaten the historical archive, the pride of our memory."
The Istituto Luce was born in 1924 at the behest of Mussolini, who understood the importance of cinema as an instrument for propagating the fascist regime. Over the years he collected an innumerable multitude of photographs and produced newsreels, documentaries and films of extraordinary historical importance. The shots are hundreds of thousands and many are the hours of video. Virtually any, light, all memory of 900, nationally and globally, an artistic material, historical, cultural and Politics, whose importance can escape only to those who did not care about the fate of Italy and of future generations.
E 'the Undersecretary for Cultural Heritage, Francesco Maria Giro, which he says, worried, as are the accounts: on the basis of what remains of FUS, or 231 million, using the tax rates applicable to various sectors, foundations opera-symphony will be about 109 million, about 31 music, dance about 5, the theater about 37, about 3.4 million and about 42 cinemas (of which less than 7 could be used in Cinecittà). While the wait was a reinstatement of up to 414 million.
Then in 2011 the Institute Luce (merged with Cinecittà in 2009) will receive from the state only € 7 million and the money will be used only to pay the salaries of employees, while it will be locked, "hypoxia" economic, any strategic activity. A real disaster, if you think that archive their history which they said is at risk. We know how fragile are the media of film and how much care needs of the material is so valuable. Not to mention the importance that the light was in the production of feature films for cultural and commitment, directed by great directors like Monicelli, Avati, Belocchio, Chabrol, Cavani, Olmi, Scola, starting from 1935 when the light gave birth all'Enic, National Agency for the film industries.
The risk of a "Halzeimer" general memory of our country is so big, and many have raised their shields in defense of Cinecittà - Light. Here are some statements.
Gianluigi Rondi, "It's like turning off the voice of Italian cinema. Not only that, how to erase the image of Italy since the war. " Sergio Zavoli: "The closing vented Cinecittà is itself an evil thought: the result of a dangerous drift of our cultural heritage. It would be a task, though well disguised, vaguely barbaric. " Marco Muller, "The programs of the last editions of the Venice Film Festival has shown how valuable the role of Cinecittà Light in the exploitation of new directors and defense options auteur who can really bind to the territory. If the threat of closure is confirmed, not only crippled the Italian cinema to come out: to lose a historic brand as important, just when foreigners want to come back to show Cinecittà turn, would mean hopelessly impoverished in terms of international communication that remains Made in Italy film. "
Digression mischievous.
A misfortunes misfortunes are: everything that happens while Forbes magazine, U.S. Economics and Finance, Mr Berlusconi withdraws from the 118esimo 74th place in the ranking of the richest in the world with a personal fortune of "only" 7.8 billion dollars.
But that's another story.
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