All language subtitles for Il Sospetto di Francesco Maselli(The Suspect) 1975 ITALY,G.M. Volonte,Franco Solinas agg

THE SUSPECT
by Francesco Maselli

TURIN 1934

Next four more!

Excuse me, madam, is the exit for the
square beyond? - Yes, that way.

Thanks.

Ticket!

To! To! To!

Good evening sir! - Good evening.
- Where do we want to go?

Where do you want.
I don't like lyrical works .

They are all the same. Like sheep.

I don't know about opera, but
I don't think sheep are all the same.

Anyway, bleat!

Hi.

We didn't wait for you anymore.
Giacomo has been at the station for 8 days

in front of the Cobianchi. -
There was a policeman in front of the Cobianchi this morning.

Are you sure? - Sure enough to
decide on the backup solution.

I found the letter but ... - In Turin it
's getting more and more difficult.

Eh ... everywhere, look!
I started from Trapani ...

In Paris the
central committee must take this into account.

Sorry, but you're not ...
- A candidate member? Yes sure.

You are ... four it seems to me, right?

Yes, four.

Restricted board, according to
the latest indications.

Four companions chosen
among the least suspicious of the time.

I'm smart and ...
- And hungry.

I mean discussions,
clarifications, explanations, debates.

Well, of course, with all the line changes
and now ... - And now the last one too!

From sectarianism to
anti-fascist unity . It's difficult.

You know, this ...

especially in factories ...

p a felt need.

Yes but...

for this...

it would be necessary to discuss it,
while I ...

I have only organizational tasks.
The meeting is safer on the train.

There's one at six in the morning.
- But, tomorrow morning you say?

Yes, I can notify them now.

But there is the factory, you know.
If they don't warn first ...

they make you control at home
so ...

And this would lead to
consequences, I realize!

And all
three others work in the factory ? - No.

Only Tommaso and Libero.

Giacomo is the student
but he is still good.

Do you know that
many students are approaching?

Well, hopefully good.

We really hope well.

Besides, Marx
is also an intellectual, isn't he?

So, the appointment we bring
to the cars of the day after tomorrow morning.

Try to dress in the best way
and put on your tie. - Be calm.

The ticket costs 17.50,
for 4 they are ...

70 lire. There!

Look, I didn't find
anything tonight . If you know ...

I know my house.
- And I thank you.

But you know you can't.
It would be against the rules.

No, an exception that ...

would confirm the rule.

I said to him: '' If these
are your men here ... ''

And he? What was he doing?
He called?

Do you have a wine?

Yes!

Sorry.

Oh yes! Look, at the
far left is Edelweiss.

Excuse me, what is the train to Aosta?
- That's the one there.

The one who's doing the maneuver.

But how many new faces
here for a while!

Do
you want anything , young man?

Give me "La Stampa".
- They didn't come.

Well, it doesn't matter. Give me one
of those newspapers yesterday.

Of yesterday?

Here, thanks!

I didn't give in. I have the utmost respect.
Indeed, when you see your superior

say hello to me. - Young man, look,
we are painters

and we have to paint all
the street lamps of the canopy, clear?

I stopped, I ...

Sorry.

Sorry.

Number 44.

In a carriage.

What are you doing, come on?

Near the lamppost.

That over there.

But you don't see that this
is all to paint.

Not even two hands of
preparation have given.

Go get gas.

Good morning. - Good morning.

Excuse me, but is that newspaper from today?
- It's from today. Why, when should it be?

No, I was wondering why
it wasn't there at the newsstand while she already had it.

But what does it say? - I say we've
already met, remember, right?

What is it, part? Ah no, that's the other one.
- Yes, that of Genoa.

Do I have time for a jump to the newsstand?
- Wait, wait, which then maybe stay on the ground!

This? Not even three minutes.
- Well, there's plenty of time.

Do
n't worry , I'll give you that ... - No, don't worry. I do it in time.

I'm sure she doesn't move.

If you look at the place, rather!
- I look at the place. - Thanks.

Come on, what are you doing?
Walk, move, run!

The communist militant on a mission
has among his first and peremptory duties

that of safeguarding one's
life and one's freedom of action

from any risk that arises
even if in certain ways.

In fact, of his life he does not respond
to his private individuality

but to the Party and the working class
to which it has placed itself.

The very moment that he chose
or accepted

to become a
professional revolutionary .

What time is it?

Five o'clock.

I'm leaving. Hi.

Are you done? - No, but it's
not important.

Do you know that the car must
be ready for tomorrow?

Okay, I'll be there an hour earlier.
- These Italians!

Do you have friends, Emilio? - No.

At least...

I hope.

Rue de la Bastille!

Do you know Comrade Oreste?

Listen, Emilio ...

you perhaps know that the Party
is reviewing the situation

of a whole series of companions.

The cadres office has signaled to us
the possibility that ...

in short, you are, in short, you
can be readmitted,

of course if you agree.
- All right.

For you there is also the fact that
the radiation was not formalized

much less was there talk of expulsion.

In practice we can consider it
a departure.

- All right. - There is a whole practice to follow.
You know it, you know the rules.

1932, right? - Yup.

That article had just come out.
You were among the enthusiasts.

You get upset and accused of
petty bourgeois democracy,

attack on the principles of
democratic centralism.

Then inadmissible, he refuses,
therefore ... etc. etc. etc...

All right. Let's start.

At Bugatti you find work not even
two months after leaving.

Since I was no longer working in our
club and then I had all the day off.

And those contacts started then.
- Yes, but I'm not with them.

Even with others.

We are talking about the Trotskyists. Then?

Then nothing. They tried to convince me,
I tried to convince them.

Sorry, but ... convince them of what?

But of the Party!
From the Party line.

That was what you
questioned. At least in that period.

No, I questioned the Party line.
I questioned the fact that it was not discussed.

All right, look, you will talk about this
with Comrade Teresa.

As soon as he finishes the meeting.

Giovanni, are you all right?
- Everything good.

A disaster, Giovanni!

Telegraph Office, please!
Central mail!

Because of my probable identification

renounced last stop
my itinerary.

I ask for emergency device

Milan. Planned place and time.

Urgent new passport

for immediate return ...

Paris.

I am happy because the Party
has decided to recover you.

Any companion or
any companion would be.

Well, indeed!
It's part of their job.

Ended?

Separate accounts, please.

For clarity, I am not
part of the cadres office.

For clarity, I understood it.

From what?

Just from the fact that you weren't
present ... at the interrogation.

Ah, yes! Sure.

They only asked me to talk
to you. Thus, between companions.

And with 10 years of Party
should I believe it? - Rather!

You can afford not to believe it
with 10 years of Party.

All right. An exam, no?
Let's start, then.

As you want. But let's start by
reporting that you spoke about the exam.

Listen. I'm just looking for ...

to go to the substance! - Today
"substance" is also a word ...

if used poorly.

Or you don't know.

Clarified that it is a
simple chat and nothing else

I only need you to tell me
the reasons for the dissent.

Then and now of course
if there are!

In short, they were things that I had been
thinking for a long time.

That the Party should have debated
its political choices with grassroots comrades.

That it was necessary for those choices,
that the political line

born from a
collective elaboration .

Then came the article
that expressed precisely those concepts.

Discipline and debates in a Leninist party.
The signature was supposed to be a pseudonym. Aurora.

You remember that, don't you?
- Yes, I remember.

He explained above all that it was not a
generically democratic need ,

it was not a question of principle,
but only by applying that collective method

Leninist, it could have had a
concrete impact on reality.

He did everything to take my word away.

But since there were other companions
who had the same ideas,

then ... well, two days later
they sent me to call.

Was Resta also there?

No, Resta, no.

They told me that I had forced
the sense of that article,

that even the article was not
an ideal of clarity,

indeed it was objectively
provocative.

Maybe it was just like that.

No, no. Maybe you do
n't remember it well. - Maybe.

Or maybe two years have passed.

A testimony on the
days of Parma.

On the resistance of
the overcurrent to the fascists. You are there? - Yup.

You could jot down what
comes to your mind, that you remember.

So, what comes to you. Then, so much
we review it together. - Okay, I'll try.

And how is it going with Teresa?
- We talked to Teresa and ...

Look, it
is important for readmission . Hi. - Yes but...

Emilio! Did you know that they told me you were
coming back and they readmitted you?

So for the room
100 francs.

Electricity, gas, water ...

Others 25.

How much do you spend to eat?

Well, let's say 200 francs.

From Pierre, isn't it? Rue della Roquette?

Yes, from Pierre.

We add another 50 francs
for the various ones.

Makes a total of ...

375 francs.

So, at Bugatti you earn ...

230.

With overtime
you can reach 300.

75 are missing. What do you mean?
What does the OVRA pass me?

Thanks. See you later.

So, you understand. Continuing like this ...

It's all useless. - Of course.
You are right. I told you ...

Tomorrow at 5pm.
- Good. I'll have them picked up.

Since we have the photos, calculate a day
and a night of work for the passport.

Let's go back to Turin. - I applied
the rules. Get to safety

at the first consistent suspicion.

But that the station was on guard,
that the painters and the other one

were policemen, in short ...

that it really was an
organized trap , I have no proof.

And for the policeman in front of
Cobianchi it's the same.

Coincidences happened to me
also in Cerignola, Molfetta ...

Reggio Emilia. But yet...

Yes, they are cities where you have done a good
job. I am informed of this.

However, there was something in Turin.
I immediately felt it. Something...

That was not right!

How long before did you
meet the four?

The day before.

That is, the night for the
day after tomorrow morning.

I could not do otherwise because
of the four, two worked in the factory

and permission was needed.

Do you have any idea how many commissariats
you have in time to go in 24 hours?

I told you two of the four
were workers.

Without warning, they
could not be absent.

Then, I say, we are talking about companions.

Companions can be companions
but they can also be spies.

And this is not because companions are
bad, but because spies are good.

That is, they know their profession.

How many were there who knew about the
appointment?

Four. Only the four of the board.

The same people who waited in
the train compartment for Aosta.

So, at least by hypothesis ...

we must consider the possibility
that one of the four is the spy.

One of the three, if anything. Gavino Pintus
is out of action. I slept with him

and he could have me arrested.

But didn't you say that you had
respected all the rules?

The rules apply
as needed

and sometimes they get confused
with fatigue!

Anyway ... if
your hypothesis is true ...

from four they become three.
- It's not for sure!

And then, in your opinion, this spy ...

why in all this time
would not have denounced others?

Because it didn't suit him.
Not to find out.

To continue to control or
even direct our work.

Or maybe because he was expecting someone.

Someone who was worth it.

An executive. One of the foreign center.

Someone like you.

Yes, this is the most reasonable hypothesis!

At six at the address I gave you.

You have been too many years in the Party to be
able to marvel at that tone,

the cold, detached,
hard tone of certain companions.

Those of the cadres office for example.

And on the other hand, you are not convinced
to return, if there are too many doubts ...

I mean, what are you trying to tell me?

In the meantime, think carefully, Emilio.
Seriously.

And then?

What an impression of comrades
is that you don't say everything, that you have reservations.

Teresa, did you see her again? - No.

But we talked - repair it.
She is one who can understand you. Bring it all out.

Someone who can understand you, did he tell you?

Okay, Emilio.
I'm going home.

Come on, come on!

The fact of the revolution, for example. Until a few
years ago the Party assured us that it was imminent.

I know. All the communist parties assured him.
It was the analysis he did ...

International.
- A wrong analysis.

Wrong? The collapse of capitalism
certainly did not happen.

Not even the revolution! That was to
break out immediately and win. So ...

They have been useful anyway.
- In prison?

Useful to the Party. You understood perfectly well.
Useful ... - In prison!

Also. But not all of them. I'm here.

And it doesn't matter if we thought we were going
to organize the people ready to rise.

However, we have reorganized the whole Party.
In all the territory.

Including prisons and border areas.

So, huh?

Then nothing.

One thinks ...

to everything that the turn
of the '30 cost the Party,

the almost 1000 arrests, the expulsions of the
opponents, those months of grueling controversy.

Give us feedback, reviews,
detailed reports,

investigations ... that still last.
All right, we'll also talk about this.

But despite everything ...

you notice ...

that this also served.
You find yourself the grown party.

We'll talk about it. Now ...
- Let's talk about the Socialists.

When you were in Italy
for example ... in 1930, here,

you found it right that line,
the directive to consider us only us,

we communists, the only ones we can trust,
the only ones we can do political work with.

Yes, I answer you.
- No, no, wait. And the socialists

overnight we have made them
not only enemies, but ...

fascists! Indeed, even worse than the fascists!

It's all tied to the same analysis.

What you have called wrong of the
International. The plenum of '29

stating that the crisis of
capitalism was imminent, that ...

the revolution...

proletarian revolution around
the world was upon us ...

he was perfectly right
to consider that every force

who did not believe or
do not want revolution

would have confused and diverted
the international proletariat

from the decisive clash
with the adverse class.

And indeed, if you know for sure that
this clash is tomorrow

and you know he will win, whatever strength

have other plans

play the game of oppressors.

But it is equally clear that if instead
you those two securities,

that the revolution will be tomorrow
and that it will win,

you don't have it and you act
like you have them

you become the true ally of the
adverse class .

By breaking union unity in Germany
we have accelerated the revolution

or the advent of Hitler?

Of course, German Social Democrats were the worst.
- I don't know them and I don't understand you

I know that in Parma in '23
when we kicked out the fascists

the socialist workers were with
us. And not just them!

A carpenter that everyone teased
because he went to Mass on Sunday

he died the first day fighting right
next to me, without the time to cross himself!

Listen, Emilio, once and for all! You don't want to understand
and I don't want to say more than what I said.

So look ...

be careful because it is
not with this spirit

to help your return to the Party.
It's not losing control,

it is not with emotion that you can dream
of convincing a communist comrade.

In a little while, perhaps, after so many years, we will resume
calling socialists "companions",

but you know the Party! You know that until
this has undergone all the sieves

and you will not have read it in our press,
someone who speaks like you has closed!

Gavino Pintus, 36 years old,
born in Tempio Pausania, Sardinia.

Worker in a cork factory.
Emigrated to Turin in '29.

Since 1931, driver of the square.

He obtains the license for the interest
of a distant relative

who works in the Prefecture.

Libero Ferrante, 24 years old.
Militant anarchist father and mother.

The father killed by the fascists in '23.

In 1929 on the basis of the
insurrectional slogans

join the Party.

Worker at FIAT Grandi Motori.

Nothing else. The rest is fine.

Tommaso Lenzini, 30 years old,
born in Turin.

FIAT Lingotto worker.
Catholic wife practicing.

He has been seen accompanying her to church,
even if he does not enter

and waits for her outside with
her 7-year-old son.

He ran the underground union
and was very active, trustworthy.

He disciplined the doctrine
of joining the fascist unions

but it seems diminished
as a commitment

and how efficient.

There is the fact that
a practicing Catholic was chosen as a wife.

Of course!

Except that by marrying him he could not know
that for his party he would become a clue ...

to decide that maybe he is a spy.

Why maybe ...

he wouldn't marry her, would he? - It depends on the account in which
this comrade cares about the Party's evaluation.

La Rosa Giacomo,
22, from Turin.

University student,
fourth year of physics.

The concierge father
in a downtown building.

The mother is dead. Sister,
younger brothers ...

In the Party for two years, he has promoted
a push towards our ideas among students.

To live he works in a bookbinding shop
and gives repetitions. It is particularly

active in its sector.
Prepared, mature.

No error. No weakness.

He looks like a perfect guy. Too much!

How Too Much?

Too much!

Why do you trust
too perfect people?

Sorry!

In my opinion, you don't know
what you're saying.

You can try to explain it to me!

I keep these documents safe.

Why don't you come over for
a coffee?

I say that if you come to suspect a partner
because he is good, or rather because he is too good ...

Nothing. I can't explain. But maybe
it's unfair, it's absurd, it's wrong!

Don't believe I don't see it, you know ...

the danger of a certain logic.

The consequences that inevitably
leads you once you have entered it.

But let's start from the fact that certain
deviations, Trotskyism for example,

actually weaken, objectively,

the communist parties

and therefore favor the infiltration
of counterrevolutionary agents,

spies that is, in our paintings,

and we also start from the fact
that a spy can be enough ...

look, even a single spy,

as long as it has managed to infiltrate
our middle managers

to blow up the Party organization
even in an entire region.

And the organization, Emilio, remember,
is the basis of a revolutionary party,

it is the backbone of his ideas.

And if then, to save the organization,

the party came to consider useful

that all comrades, look, I say all,

are to be considered in some
way, by hypothesis, suspicious ...

and if we ask ourselves why all
the Italian political parties, none excluded,

they dissolved with the consolidation
of the fascist regime

because it is precisely the
youngest of them, the Communist Party,

who was born only on January 21, 1921,

to have remained
active and organized

the answer we find in an episode
of only three years ago that is incredible!

The organization
of the National Party Congress in Germany

with all the qualified representatives
of all the clandestine regional federations.

When Comrade Lenin
emphasized organization in that way

did not make a
method or form speech , did a ...

In Emilia, comrades sometimes
asked me

if it made sense to risk
25 years in prison

just to meet, discuss,

just decide
on the text of a flyer,

give us all to do
to distribute it

and then maybe go back
to discuss it.

Well, comrades, I don't know what
I would have given to answer.

Comrade, what do you say? The
general strike has taken place throughout Italy .

The insurrection is upon us

and today's meeting is to organize
the distribution of weapons

that will be landed
tonight in Ancona,

directly from a
Soviet submarine.

That's right!

I assure you that it was not easy to explain
the importance of even our simple presence,

of our only one manifest
but printed among the workers,

because it meant the continuity
of the Party, of course,

but also the presence of the point
of view of the class.

The possibility of developing and
training new workers cadres.

So without a strategy, a perspective?
- With the only strategy that belongs to us

and the only perspective. Break down fascism

and build socialism in Italy.

When and how it will be possible.
- All right. I thank Comrade Teresa

for realistic testimony

who wanted to give us.

During the next lessons,
however, we will listen to other testimonies,

of other comrades, on Italy.
See you next Saturday.

Every 15.

Yes, there is an assembly tomorrow.
We must be there too.

It is only a first representation.

All right, comrades. Always strong.
- You know it's changed ... - Another time?

Hi. If you have a moment, I ...
- Okay. I am done.

No, it's that by not reselling you ...

However, I had only suspended it.

Your judgment on me?
- My opinion!

And now?

We are left alone ...

socialism to be built in Italy.

It is a difficult time. The International
seems confident that it is putting

to develop new lines.
New basic choices.

And this time in the direction,
in short, you remember, to overcome

sectarianism in all ... forms.

And this creates tension among the comrades
of our management team.

On the other hand, it is true that for years now
these choices were no longer discussed.

Sorry, but you say: '' The
management team, there is tension,

basic choices, it seems safe
that ... '' - So what?

I do not know. But this is not the case to expand ...
- But the Party today is not what it wants to be.

It is what it can be. What it
must be, if it wants to survive.

But yet...

I understand what you say, you know,
today I am actually convinced of it, yet ...

there is more? - Yup.

Of course there is more.
Think for a moment.

Decisions, for example.

The last ones, who takes them?
An immense, international body.

Yes, but here ...

The international continues to take
equally into account its 100 Communist Parties,

of those 100 different realities ...
- Among them, one is the most important.

That of the only socialist state that is
surrounded by the greatest capitalist powers,

besieged by the whole world.

If Russia is destroyed,

the progress,

the history of humanity

it will stop...

and we don't know until.

Maybe 50,

maybe 100 years and then ...

oppressed peoples in Asia or Africa

they will see the only
state capable of helping them disappear ,

to defend them.

So tens, hundreds of millions
of exploited people ask the Russians today

inhuman efforts, aberrant sacrifices,

to resist!

Defending Russia
is the choice of every communist.

Trust me, everything else ...

comes after.

So a Leninist party
needs discipline more than debate ...

today!

It looks like the title of an article.
- Maybe. Why not?

Of companion Aurora.

Or of Comrade Teresa.

Which is the same.

Teresa, Teresa ... o mio Dio!

Luckily you've arrived!
Eleonora's son

she is sick again.
- Keep calm. Nothing happens.

Otherwise it ends up having to give you the injection.
- Sorry, I can't help but ask you ...

your judgment, your opinion, then,

is it negative or positive?

Positive, from the first moment.

And not just for me.

I do not understand. But then...

all closures ...

the suspended judgments, all this
kind of work

who commissioned you. In short,
what was it? To test me?

To test
some of us two.

Over the past four years,
6000 communists have been arrested.

All the executives who have gradually
tried to rebuild the internal center

were arrested.

All the comrades who left
Paris to recreate the contacts

and the organization have been arrested.
You cannot afford this luxury

because we worked ...

Because we have worked for a year
to completely rework our technique.

We have changed contact details,
the passwords.

We have selected the new
link managers.

Now it's up to you.

See, children. These
are the white bears.

They live in glaciers,
where it is very cold ...

Come on, guys. Let's go
on the catwalk!

Run!

Wait for me!

So nothing happened in Turin.
They didn't arrest anyone.

So our hypothesis is right.

The hypothesis was yours. It was
a simple possibility.

That has become reality since
others have not arrested them.

It was you they were looking for. And since
only four of them knew who you were ...

one of the four ...
- One of the three. - Or one of three ...

he is a spy.
This is the passport.

Sorry, it's a spy in
case it really is

I made it clear right away that ...
- That you weren't sure.

Sure. But nothing changes since you were
sure enough to get yourself out.

While we must be sure
that who will come after you

take no risks.

Henri Langloise, industrial expert, Brussels.

Okay ... so ...

So now we know that on the
Turin board there is or can be

a spy.

A spy who can arrest
anyone and whenever he wants.

A spy that makes our
organization lose a city like Turin.

Turin means FIAT.

The largest and most advanced
worker concentration in our country.

Turin is the starting point and the
arrival point of any speech.

Without Turin a revolutionary party
would not make sense. - All right.

Turin is important. - More than important.
- Okay, more than important!

So?

Then your mission has failed.

My mission is to let
her comrades in Paris judge her.

Already done.

Look ... you really believe
it's possible to organize

the internal center in Italy
without Turin?

And do you think who will
run the center

will he be able to contact the
Turin board in this situation?

Do you think it's possible or not?

No, in this situation, no.
- Here you see?

The purpose of your mission was
to allow the reconstitution of the internal center.

I know one thing.

That the first rule
the Party teaches is that of not being arrested.

The Party also teaches not to respect
the rules when it can be useful to the Party.

And in this case?

I'll give you an example.

If they had arrested you the day before
the train appointment

or they arrested you in
Gavino Pintus' house,

on the door or nearby,

today we would know that
the spy is Gavino Pintus,

since he was
the only one who knew where you lived

and since you had committed
the lightness of going home.

Now, in this case,
given the situation,

your arrest would have
been useful to the Party.

Now I understand.

This is called
being a trap, a guinea pig ...

or owl, if you prefer!

How many years do you think they'll give me?

It is not said ...
- No, forget it. How many?

From 20 to 30 years if they take you.

I get it.

But you ...

you, this morning,

you gave me my passport

and this means that you expected

that I would go back to Paris.

And I'll think about it!

The communist militant on a mission
has among his first and peremptory duties

that of safeguarding one's
life and one's freedom of action

from any risk that arises
even if in certain ways.

Of his life, in fact ... - Be careful
when choosing places for dating

with the companions you make
contact with. It is proven indeed

that the irrational instinct pushes
to choose isolated, peripheral places,

hardly beaten by the crowd and the police.

The experience of all sections of the
Communist International

he approved instead ...
- The tone of the voice must be normal.

Not high but in no way
low and circumspect.

The practice of thousands and thousands of companions
informs us that they raise greater suspicions

two people whispering
sentences without dangerous content ...

The telegraphic code divides each
word into syllables. According to a table ...

Of course, you need to know the new
generalities studied specifically

and exclusively for the
border crossing phase .

For this reason,
a limited number of indispensable sentences has been chosen

to be studied with great application.

1895.

At Pedro Pineda e in Lucia Melina.

Start again.

Antonio Pineda.

Born in Barcelona.

July 7, 1895.

At Pedro Pineda e in Lucia Melina.

Start again.

For those 231 liters of fuel

he will reply that ... it's too late

and who prefers to go sailing.

I will tell him that with sailing
he will never arrive.

Okay, good! Now...

let's move on to the next.

Reggio Emilia.

So, Reggio Emilia ...

Send the postcard at the end
of the previous stage.

Which was? - Pesaro.

Bravo.

Send the postcard to Borganti Alessio.

Plaques and stamps, via Solferino.

But no, San Martino!
- Yes, via San Martino, sorry!

It is better with the lens.
- Oh thanks.

The Worker State

These are 15,000 Spanish pesetas.

Just to show them at the border ...
and bring them back to me.

These for three months of maintenance.
Correspond to

average salary of an Italian worker.

And these for the mission.
Travel, hotels, contingencies ...

all!

Upon your return

I want the full note,

divided by voices, down to the smallest detail ...

even the cents. - Agree.

This is the baggage deposit receipt.

In the suitcase you will find everything.

This is the key to the suitcase.

And these are the keys to the apartment.
4, rue Saint Severin.

From tomorrow you are no longer there for anyone.

Nobody needs to know where you are.

Nobody needs to know how,
when and where you leave.

Ah, senti ...

he instructed me to tell you personally.
Comrade Resta wants to talk to you.

We remained a small group of managers.

A decimated direction
that has a duty to survive.

But the party is in Italy.

They are the 2000 companions scattered,
isolated, disheartened, confused also ...

also because of us.
But stubborn!

Who resist! And we can't,

we must not give up
on re-establishing a direction in Italy.

The inner center.

Your mission is for this.

You will have to resume contacts.
Check the new lines

of organization

conspiracy.

All this will make it possible,
less dangerous,

the subsequent trip of an executive.

An executive is the result
of a selection,

therefore it does not belong
to itself but to the Party.

He has no right to risk!
- Yes Yes i know.

I understand. - Yeah!

But after any speech

there are always unspoken things.

Even among us?

Even among us.

And it is good to reduce them to a minimum.

44. Whose is 44?

Well. It's like
Doctor Silvestri had described it , isn't it?

Isolated, simple, far
from the noise of the city.

And together a stone's throw from the center.

A walk through the trees
and you are at the velodrome.

And that is exactly why
you find it vacant.

People seem to be in a frenzy today.

An anti-health frenzy, in my opinion!

So let's see the key number 7.

Here she is.

Of course, the state of the interior leaves much
to be desired. Corresponds to what I said.

To the law of supply and demand.

Sir?

Lord? - Yes, I
went through here. Here I am.

Ah! Didn't you trust that
there were two entries?

And it's good, you know! Trust is good but ...

Here it is. Nowadays such
a skylight

that would give light to the whole house would
not even be conceived.

In the summer, they tell me that it is possible to
save electricity.

Where's the phone, sorry?
- Upstairs. Also from this we see,

in my opinion, the mentality of the
wealthy people of before.

Even from the kitchen. You will see!

Lord?

Ah, you are here! If you want, you can
show it to your lady.

Three months earlier did you say?
- Do not worry. We will regulate everything ...

No, I'll spend one of these days.
In the meantime...

100 ... 200 ... 3 ...

4 ... 5 ...

1,200 ... 3,000.

Ready? - Hello.
- Via Divina Genero 23. - Now!

Sorry...

what number does the car have? - 14.

OK, I'll wait!

It is you? - Put the car down.

I'll wait inside.

The only way to discover the spy ...

is that I meet all three of them!

One by one.

And you think about making appointments.

You have to tell everyone

that I have already met with
others. And that I'm going to leave.

It's clear, isn't it? - All right.

Be careful that it is important.

Whoever of them is the spy

must be convinced that this
is the only opportunity to take me ...

the only chance!

Clear! - If after two hours

I have not returned from the appointment

it means that they arrested me
and that is he is the spy!

But did you come back to get arrested?

So you mean they can arrest me?
- I do not know.

So is it possible that one of the three is the spy?
- No! - Then why are you worried!

We need photographs of the three,
plus yours that make four.

Say you bring them.

But the passports are three.

Indeed!

The spy isn't needed.

But since we still don't know who he is ...

we need photographs of
all four members of the board.

You share these with others.
They are enough to reach Paris.

You must run away as soon as they have
caught me . Once discovered

the spy will no longer have reason
not to arrest all of you.

Do you have a cigarette?

Are you still not convinced?
- I was thinking about something else.

It is not easy to leave the family,
everything and go to France.

Well, better in France than in jail!

You still have that ... what is it, a
relative of yours , a friend of yours in the Prefecture?

Yes, it's one ... one from my country.

A distant relative.

No, I say this because in the early
days it could be useful.

One who works in the prefecture always has
many possibilities, don't you think?

Maybe.

Until he knows what I
'm wanted for.

Oh yeah, why don't you know you're a communist?
- Would you like to joke?

Tommaso Lenzini, Libero Ferrante,
Giacomo La Rosa. - Giacomo?

This is most likely. We keep it last.
- But I presented Giacomo to the Party!

A very good boy, a good companion.
- Yes, we are all good companions!

Intellectual, petty bourgeois,

large family...

poor! How do you study?
- Give the repetitions, work!

Oh no, in a capitalist country who is poor
and honest cannot go to university!

However, in front of Cobianchi he had brought
a policeman with him. - But they weren't together!

They did not seem together. - But if you yourself
said that Giacomo had not even seen him.

Come to think of it, instead I saw it!

However, we keep it last.

But yes!

You have to ...

come and live here. Is essential.

Find an excuse, say you have to go to Sardinia,
a sick relative ... whatever you want!

Yes, yes ... I will find a way.

Listen, can you cook? - A little'.

Here, this is an advantage.

Then, the first will be Libero,
the son of the two militant anarchists.

By tonight we will finalize everything.

This way.

Legs, that there are still
two steps to go!

Here, this is Superga.

Come on, move on!

And look at it well, huh?

Because then when you come back and they ask you,
you don't do as usual.

Meaning?

Silent scene.

Mind you. There's nothing
so beautiful, guys, on the contrary ...

let's just say it's a horror.

In addition there are always work
in progress. - It's photogenic, you know!

In these basements there are
the tombs of the Kings of Sardinia

Vittorio Emanuele II, Carlo Alberto,
here are your busts!

It is located right in the center of
the upper part of the basilica.

Instead, on the walls ...

Be careful that you put
your feet on the emblem!

That looks nice!

In fact, there was a chapel here.

And here Vittorio Amedeo II went up

and Eugene, Prince of Carignano,
before the battle

to see the enemy's positions.
Oh, therefore ...

the light that rains from the rose windows that
you see all around the dome

it lights up in almost all hours of the day

the valuable bas-relief of the
Cornacchini on the altar.

But if you don't see anything now!

I said: '' In almost all
hours of the day ''.

Hi.
Do you remember?

We met on the train.

Do you remember?

That is ...

Sorry.

Maybe I'm wrong.

Sorry.

Did you see me for a moment, and do you recognize me?

Yes, for us ...

see a partner from the foreign center

has become an extraordinary fact,

something increasingly rare.
- So?

And then it is difficult to go like this ...

I mean ... I mean ...

without seeing each other ... without arguing,

occasionally receiving
directives that maybe ...

here
have nothing to do with the problems !

Dozens and dozens, hundreds
of comrades who have been arrested

while trying to come here,
yes, to argue!

But the fact remains that ... for us, in short,

try to understand you! There are so many problems.

Many! And it's not easy! - All right.
There will be everything in the editorial office, won't it?

Yes, but you ... is it true that you leave immediately?

I will bring up relationships.
You will receive directives and explanations.

Yes, but ... I meant ...

for example...

the new unitary line ...
- Did you bring the photos?

Sure.

Did you put them here in the report?

Yes, but don't we talk about ...?
- You will receive everything from Paris.

Be calm. Hi.

I felt it!

Just a moment!

Sorry, you know ... just ten minutes, sorry!

I don't want to take your time.

It's for advice, one thing.

Yes, it is for the Grandi Motori workshop.

There are discussions in the cell ...

important ...

on the new unit line.

If there are companions standing on
sectarian positions , you have no arguments to convince them.

Indeed!

The thing is ...

they are very serious companions.
We need to discuss it in depth!

In conclusion...

I believe in the new line.
It's just that here, for years and years ...

But, yes, of course ...

Let's get there!

That they recognize you is no wonder.

All three were on the train.

Look, did he understand that you suspected him?

Well, I don't know!

And when did you understand that he was not the spy?

When they didn't arrest me.

For the reserve board ...

I have to find a partner ...
good and smart like him.

And also the second, Tommaso ...
you will see tomorrow!

He's a serious, nice guy.

I'm 40 years old.

Well that goes I have to
do 20 years in prison.

And I arrive at 60.

And then?

Then maybe there is still fascism.

I'm not having fun ...

to suspect comrades.

If
a manager comes from abroad ...

Well, you're an executive!

I?

Well, let's say one ...

important one, one ...

of the five or six that are still left out

and you were responsible for it ...

what would you do? Would you trust
Tommaso's sympathy?

See, Emilio, I know them one by one ...

No, you have to answer me!
Would you trust it or not?

So let's not talk about it anymore!

Hi Antonio. - How are you?

Listen'. You know Giuseppe, don't you?
You know he got hurt ...

and then since he has no insurance,
something should be done ...

Hello!

Look, to be sure
we can take one of these.

Have you ever been on a canoe?

All right. It's just a question of balance.
I'll take it. Wait a minute, huh?

Angel! Angel!

This is free here, isn't it?
- No. We already gave this one here ...

Just for half an hour.
Come on, Tommaso, you know ...

if it were free I would give it to you, wouldn't I?

Do nothing!

Nothing. There is to wait. I'm sorry.

Usually there are always free ones, but ...
this one is booked, the other one is out now.

Do you have time?

No, I don't have time - I understand.

I'm really sorry.
I assure you that here every day ...

there are always free ones.
You already said it.

Above the head, together, all eight.
All eight together, come on!

Okay so!

Enter a little ...
enter a little under four.

We can also stop here.

We sit down and ... of course, it's less secure.

Thomas!

Giancarlo said he doesn't use the boat,

then you can take it.
- Very kind of you, thanks.

Listen, look, let's be clear ...

you decide where we go.
Whether up or down or in the Dora.

I mean, you understand. You decide everything.

Did you bring the relationship? - Yup.

And then I told him about the Egyptian Museum.

It's time for the appointment.

There! It is about the time of the appointment
that he started again.

He said it was more prudent the hour
before the museum closed,

that in these things one had to
be very exact.

Inside the museum, for example,

he wanted the
exact place of your meeting to be fixed .

On the left, as soon as you enter, at the end of
the room where there is the great pharaoh.

And then those questions again.

He wanted to know what sense it was to
meet alone, you and him.

He said: "I could
give the relationship to you and you give it to him".

And then he wanted to know if Libero
and Tommaso had already met them.

Look it's ready!
He comes here later, you know ...

the new head of the reserve management.

It was as if the ambush was not he
who was preparing him for you

but ours.

In short, if we did not know what it is, I assure you
that hearing him talk it seemed that the spy was ...

or you or me.

He is the companion of the new board!

Are you coming too?
- No, not me.

Are you sure Giacomo doesn't know him?

No. It's from the cell ...

of the Great Motors. A picture that is
still being formed. He's in the party recently.

Since when?

Seven months.

And can you trust it?

It can be trusted that
Giacomo does not know him.

Do you remember everything for the foreign center in Paris?

Yup.

Repeat the address?

Avenue Prevert 21.

... of France.

The relationship must be clear.

No personal comments, made!

If they ask you about me ...

nothing ... I said for the money.
The administrator is not a tender.

He wants to know how they
were spent and the reason.

All right!

I think we said it all.

There is a companion in Paris
named Teresa.

In Italy it was called Aurora. For a
time I think he also worked in Turin.

If you are interested, if you want,

you can ask about her.

Should I tell you something?

Hello.

Good night.

Taxi!

Gavino!

Here it is, it's coming!

Bas-tar-do!

Bastard! You got
all three arrested . Free, Tommaso.

Giacomo was taken away an hour ago.

All the board got arrested.
- Take it away!

You did a good job, you bastard!

Are you happy, say ...

you're happy?

I am a militant of the Italian Communist Party.
I have nothing else to declare.

Enough, guys! It seems to you the way to
treat someone who got us arrested

all four members of
the communist council of Turin?

Take it away, come on!

I'm sorry, you know ...

on the other hand they cannot know
the secret relationship between us.

Move! Here we go!

Ah, are you already here?
But ... did they leave you alone?

Well, no problem anyway!

I told you that between the two of us ...
there is already an agreement, indeed ...

in a sense it is more than an agreement.

It is true that you sowed us.

In Foggia, Cerignola.
Then to Reggio Emilia and Vercelli.

But here in Turin you made us
do a good job.

And Turin is important.

FIAT is there.

Already!

But why did
you become here ... not very smart?

All right!

So ...

it's about three months

that in one way or another I know you.

When '' Stato Operaio '' published
your article, I wondered ...

'' But who is this? Where does it come from? ''

It was a testimony on the
days of Parma

and so between archives, police headquarters ...

and Embassy of Paris ...

it was not difficult to establish
who was the author.

And why...

from nothing...

suddenly...

one writes for the most qualified
publication of the Communist Party

and then it disappears?

Yes, because in the meantime
the embassy will let us know

that you disappeared from Paris.

You don't believe us
we're good, huh?

And that we are so well informed.

But I want to prove it to you.

There!

Look, this is the relationship!

You can read!

Read!

I am a militant of the Italian Cominsta Party
and I have nothing else to declare.

All right!

At this point...

about a week later ...

there is the twist.

He gets there ...

a confidential communication

from our office at the embassy.

They are not perfectly
sure but they had collected ...

this hypothesis ...

by certain informants.

You would have been entered ...

no, that is, how do you say? ...

co-opted ...

you...

in the central committee.

We said ...

'' Or they went crazy,
which is difficult ...

or...

there is a reason. ''

And I...

this reason...

I discovered it.

First of all, facts and summary!

It had never been anyone.

Not only that, but he
had also been out of the party for some time.

In four and four they readmitted him,
they made him important ...

and then it disappeared.

Where is it?

In Italy?

A guess but with a
good percentage of probability.

And in Italy where?

Al sud?

Taranto, Foggia and maybe
Cerignola and Molfetta.

At the center of Rome and Reggio Emilia.

And in the north? Genoa, Vercelli and Turin ...

that is, your most important centers.

At this point

plainclothes agents,
guard stations, hotels

and phonograms to all police stations
with all the necessary data ...

but no stop orders!

Well no!

Because you were fake.

You were a trick. Do you understand that?

A formidable trap
for our informants.

Except that for some time
there has been something new here in our house.

We got smarter, more scientific ...

and so ...

as a trap ...

we used you to get your hands
on your organization

that we have been trying to
destroy for years now ...

and without success. It is useless to deny it.

So...

order to let you travel ...

but stalking you.

We just didn't know
there was news in your home too.

Of course!

I learned it looking good
among the material seized from the house.

Yes, because I finished the inventory, I unstuck
the double bottom of the suitcase frame ...

Ah, here they are! The new conspiracy rules.

A serious job. Certainly the result
of an international collaboration.

We
never take this into account too.

Moral ...

is that during all these months

and long, it can be said, the whole of Italy,
with the staging stations, the photos and the phonograms

you did! You have always escaped us!

Always until your last
return to Turin.

Because in Turin ...

which is really important,
there is FIAT,

I went there ...

with the whole team, the specialists ...

and all the local apparatus mobilized.

It took us some time ...

but here we are!

Cigarette?

This...

as far as we are concerned.

But on your part, what was the reason

of all this history?

I'll explain it to you.

In recent years, we ...

we arrest an average
of two communists a day.

This media cannot fail to have
reasonably alarmed your party ...

and also the International.

And what do they conclude?

Everyone knows about the particular extent
of the whistleblower network

woven by the OVRA in all sectors
and environments of the nation,

so, since now
we punctually arrested all the leaders

and the inspectors who sent from Paris,

the Party has come to the conclusion that we ...

we had spies in its own rows ...

hidden among the middle managers
of the various centers and of the various steering committees.

Then...

where he could the Party
renewed these cadres ...

establishing
meticulous, individual control ,

over all.

But in the end...

to bring out ...

these supposed spies ...

well, he had no other choice.

He had to build

a false leader ...

send him here and let him go around
all his organizations.

So...

you take Comrade Emilio ...

you paint well, you indoctrinate ...

and then ... all comrades are warned

that a boss will come.

Did you understand?

What do you say, huh? What do you
think of this whole story?

I am a militant of the Italian Communist Party
and I have nothing else to declare.

You are a poor thing! You are a failure!

They took you from shit and
cleaned you up. They made you important!

Were you proud to see your article
in the newspaper? But it was a trick!

You were proud to have joined
your central committee

but it was all a scam,
a lousy trick!

But do you know what happens
if you do n't collaborate?

Do you know what happens if I
put you in the cell with Gavino?

The one sure kills you!

Because nobody gets it out of
his head, neither here nor in Paris,

that you are a spy!

If instead you collaborate ...

we rebuild your virginity
with your party.

We study it well.

We provide you with all the
necessary proof of your innocence.

And so you can go back up there.

Free!

I got it?

Abroad!

And as far as we are concerned,
we only need a monthly report.

Well?

What's up?

That you are a militant of the Italian Communist Party?
- I am a militant of the Italian Communist Party

and I have nothing else to declare.

And then you deserve everything
because you are also a jerk!

They tricked you!
They took your piss!

They sent you straight to jail!

And in jail, my word, see
that you stay 25 years to say the least!

But did you understand it or did you not

But ... I've always known this.

We agreed!

Thanks to the Gramsci Institute
for the archive materials

made available.

The story of this film,
while inspired by reality,

it is a work of fantasy.