Saturday Sunday Monday, 1968

Location: Milan, Italy Creator: Ansano Giannarelli The documentary deals with the condition of working women in Italian society in the sixties, through the emblematic story of three women filmed during three different days: a Saturday, a Sunday, on a Monday, in Milan. Factory work, trade union activity, work at home: this is how the days pass for women who work, without breaks, without stops, without a time of their own; while Sunday spends in the recovery of things not made at home, of the accumulated and postponed needs. In recent years, only twenty out of a hundred women work in productive activities: paid less, they are exploited and often fired. Precisely among working women, especially among the youngest, the awareness of their rights and the awareness of the struggle to be waged to change society, economic relations, the mentality of men, the conservative habits and traditions that weigh on all women. 01. Milan, 1968. Milanese streets in the morning at the crack of dawn 02. Women are going to work 03. Women Enter Factories 04. Inside a textile factory: women at work 05. A meeting of women: they talk about the harmfulness of work, show hands deformed by arthritis 06. Shops in the city center, near Piazza San Babila 07. At the entrance of Café Savini, ladies wearing fur coats pass by; other women get into taxis, others look at the windows of a large jewelry store 08. The exit from the factories in the evening, in the dark 09. Groceries in the supermarket 10. A woman is busy doing housework in the kitchen 11. An engaged couple observes a window where wedding dresses are displayed 12. A working family at home, gathered in the dining room in front of the TV 13. A woman mends in the kitchen 14. Women tidying up the house 15. A woman does her laundry 16. A working family at the table; eating, we discuss the problems of the members: where to put young children while their parents work; the cost of living; wage increases; if the internal commission it works 17. Women wash dishes, others iron 18. A little girl does her homework 19. A couple of middle-aged workers, sitting at the table, tell of their tiredness 20. The alarm rings at six in the morning 21. The MDP follows a worker who goes to work. Enter Sit-Siemens 22. Inside the factory. Workers work on the assembly line of telephone exchange panels 23. Workers leave Sit-Siemens. Interviews with workers about their work 24. The working-class family, whose MDP and the microphone followed the discussion while the members ate, goes to a demonstration for the freedom of Vietnam 25. The event parades through the streets of Milan at night 26. Protesters with torches symbolically burn a US flag under the headquarters of the United States consulate