“Rome of lead” and the ideological delirium of the Red Brigades – Corriere.it

If the
kidnapping
and the next
execution
of the president of the Christian Democrats

Aldo Moro

represented the apogee of the terrorist activity of the Red Brigades, the highest and most criminal point of the “war at the heart of the state” of the red subversion, more complex and less debated, is the backlash of the organization, the consequences of that striking act. From here it starts “Rome of lead”documentary in five episodes aired on Sky Documentaries. After telling the story of the Milanese “mala” from the 70s and 80s, Sky’s newborn documentary channel packs a interesting insight on ferocious Rome at the turn of two decades of escalation of violence, of ebb and of disengagement. Produced by Ballandi (production company queen of Rai1 Saturday evenings, for some time also active in cultural production), the docu-series wants to be a memory forty years after the killing of the general Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa
.

In a calibrated storydark and didactic, there are names and facts of the second phase of the BR, the one that marks its imperative “Beginning of the end”. The murder of Guido Rossaa communist worker from the Italsider of Genoa, marks a point of no return for the organization, isolated and closed in a ideological delusion. The five episodes retrace those years without making concessions, even with unpublished interviews with protagonists of the time such as
the Brigadier Francesco Piccioni

, arrested and locked up in the Asinara prison. The crooked trajectory of the Red Brigades shatters into dozens of streams and acronyms, while in the background the Eighties mark a inevitable change in customs, lifestyles, languages, geopolitical balances. A fundamental piece of the history of Italya missing (or in any case often underestimated) link in non-fiction and television documentation of the season of terrorism.