Berlinguer's last trip to Sardinia in the docufilm of university students
The unpublished work of the students of the Department of Letters, Languages and Cultural Heritage of the University of Cagliari projected to close a busy cycle of meetings on the Sardinian communist leader
The dense cycle of meetings organized by the homonymous Foundation to discuss the ideas and relations of the communist leader with culture and its expressions in the period in which his leadership developed between the 70s and 80s of the last century.
"We started from the reconstruction of a political thought - explained Tore Cherchi, president of the Foundation's steering committee - but at the same time we developed a debate on the present on the relationship between politics and culture, between politics and science".
Three very popular debates, so much so that the conference room of the Fondazione di Sardegna struggled to contain the audience, demonstrating «the respect and attention still alive today for this man, for a past that still lives on in so many young people who study his teachings», to quote Gianni Piras, president of the board of directors of the Berlinguer Foundation.
«Berlinguer identifies young people as the main interlocutors - echoed Antonello Cabras, former president of the Region, in his speech - because science and technology are promoters of change, and young people are more receptive from this point of view». Then a round table in which the teachers Maria Del Zompo, Elisabetta Cerbai and Micaela Morelli spoke with the journalist Susi Ronchi on the current thinking of the communist leader.
At the end of the evening , the unpublished documentary, made by a group of male and female students from the Department of Letters, Languages and Cultural Heritage of the University of Cagliari, proposed the testimonies of the people Berlinguer met during his last trip to the island, half January 1984, a few months before his death.
The voice of the magistrate Gilberto Ganassi rereads some of the Sardinian politician's thoughts: "While I was in a restaurant with the young people who had invited me to eat pizza - he says at the beginning of the video - I asked myself what will become of their happiness, their intelligence and of today's vivacity if things don't change in Sardinia. We must guarantee them work and serenity and fight to avert the uncertain future that hangs over them and Sardinia".
"Berlinguer's morality is always a valid lesson, not from a traditionalist, nostalgic or hagiographic point of view - added Tore Cherchi - There are long thoughts that come up to today: there is also a methodological lesson in his behavior".
(Unioneonline)
