Discussing with the Communists, 1975 (16mm negative, scan 2K/Sound)

Location: Various, Italy Creator: Sergio Spina Rome, March 1975: the 14th Congress of the PCI. How do communists prepare for the appointment of the national congress, what are the forms and what are the themes of the discussion. 01. A bus arrives in the parking lot of the Palazzo dello Sport 02. Delegates enter the building; the vigilance controls the proxies at the entrance 03. Photographs of demonstrations, strikes, fascists, attacks, politicians 04. Voting operations in a school election seat (delegated decrees) 05. Interviews, conducted on the street, with some people on the political situation in Italy 06. Inq by Enrico Berlinguer, in the stands while speaking at the congress, alternating with inq and totals of the room 07. At the end of the speech, delegates and managers stand up and applaud; inq, among others, Aldo Tortorella, Petroselli, Cossutta, Luciano Lama and Bruno Trentin 08. Inq of some foreign delegates; Luigi Longo embraces a foreign guest 09. Various inq and pp of some delegates; total of the packed room 10. Meeting in the hall between some Campania delegates 11. A pre-congress meeting in Naples 12. Various inq of the city: alleys, artisans in shop houses; hoops; piles of garbage in the streets; collapsed houses; market 13. A pre-congress meeting in Savona 14. Photographs of demonstrations and attacks in Savona 15. The headquarters of the Villapiana district council - Via Mignone 16. A card for supervision in schools 17. A pre-congress meeting in Turin, inq Piero Fassino; speech by Novelli 18. The congress; a worker from Reggio Emilia speaks 19. A pre-congress meeting in Reggio Emilia; speech by the Vice-President of the Province 20. Meeting between FGCI delegates; inq by Renzo Imbeni 21. In various FCGI events 22. Berlinguer's Inq in the stands as he concludes the introductory report 23. Pp di Lama, Pietro Ingrao, Terracini, Amendola, Natta and Nilde Iotti on the speaker's gallery 24. Delegates vote by show of hands 25. Berlinguer finishes the surgery and shakes Longo's hand 26. Total of the room from above; inq from behind some delegates with a closed fist 27. Pajetta's statements on the congress that has just ended 28. Facade of the Sports Palace