Bella Ciao, on Rai 3 the doc on the origin and meaning of the song

D.a hymn of the partisans to the House of Paperto war in Ukraine. For almost a century Bella ciao keep making his voice heard. And the documentary Bella ciao. For freedomto, prime time tonight up Rai 3, tells the disruptive story.

The docu-film by Giulia Japanese retraces the mysteries and the genesis of the passage evoked wherever one fights against LAnd injustices and for this considered a heritage of humanity in the fight for freedomto. The war in Ukraine is the latest example of resistance where Bella ciao it resounded among the soldiers and in the squares of the cities attacked by the Russians as a liberating cry.

Bella ciao. For freedom: the plot

The film is structured with material dunpublished archive and images of news from the world. In addition with interventions by historians, musiciansauthors of the new lyrics of the song and witnesses of the Resistance still alive and activists in Chile, Turkey, Iraq and Kurdistan. In short, an exhaustive journey of this symbolic piece which is still vital today.

Bella ciao begins to spread from Resistance during the Second World War and in the years of the so-called economic boomduring which, thanks to the Youth Festivals becomes a well-known song all over the worldachieving an international success that is wrongly attributed to the TV series The paper house. The Spanish series has only contributed to making it known to the younger generation.

They also tell the origins of its melody and how it spread on such a large scale, probably due to its simplicity that helped to penetrate so deeply into collective memory.

The notes of “Bella ciao” become the Ukrainian anthem against the Russian invasion

Bella ciao a world hit

Bella ciao has become an international hitobject of remix dance and techno and inspiration for artists from all over the world. The greatness of this piece lies so much in the beauty of his universal message of freedomtoas well as in the strongly contrasting emotions that arouses: sadness and joy at the same time. His melody manages to conquer very distant people, overcoming cultural and linguistic barriers.

The song accompanied dozens of realities, from the Arab Spring to the protests #occupy Usa, from the fight against climate change at the funeral of the cartoonists of Charles Hebdo, to the street movements in Lebanon, Chile and Turkey. It has also become a phenomenon of globalization overcoming every barrier: in fact it is a symbolic passage of The Paper House and jingles to promote Netflix in Saudi Arabia.

The witnesses of the documentary: from Vinicio Marchioni to Moni Ovadia

To enrich the story of Giulia Japanese there are women of the time and young people who witness their struggles accompanied by the notes of the song. There are rumors of a Turkish policy that for Bella ciao ended up in the dock and one Kurdish fightermusicians and authors like Vinicio CaposselaMarcello Flores D’arcais, Moni Ovadia, Cesare Bermani, Hazal Koyuncuer And Giacomo Scaramuzza.

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