Festa de L'Unità
As Festa de l'Unità , now mostly Festa de l'Unità (Feast of the unit), the Italian in many communities of the are Italian Communist Party (PCI) and its successor parties referred organized summer festivals, originally in favor of the party newspaper L'Unità held were. There are local, regional, thematic, but also national festivals with this name.
The Fête de l'Humanité in France , which has been successful since the 1930s, served as a model . The original purpose of the press festival was to finance the party newspaper L'Unità. The first of these festivals took place in 1945 in the municipalities of Mariano Comense and Lentate sul Seveso . Over time, this type of event has become a major source of funding for the party, especially at the local level.
A Festa Democratica was held for a few years as part of the Partito Democratico , and since 2014 the festival has been under the traditional name again. The old name still lives on at provincial level.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Website Partito Democratico ( Memento of the original from July 28, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Website of a festival in Bologna
The festival in popular culture
The festival appears in numerous films, such as
- Prima della rivoluzione (1964) by Bernardo Bertolucci
- Dramma della gelosia - Tutti i particolari in cronaca (1970) by Ettore Scola
- La patata bollente (1979) from Steno
- Zitti e mosca (1991) by Alessandro Benvenuti
- Gli ultimi (2004), by Riccardo Marchesini
Web links
- Website of the Feste de l'Unità
- "Feste Democratiche" website
- To the history of the festival (Paul Ginsborg p.196)
literature
- Paul Ginsborg : A History of Contemporary Italy: Society and Politics, 1943-1988 , Palgrave Macmillan, 2003, especially p. 196