Some met at work, some by chance, some through mutual friends. And some through a clandestine relationship. "We were just lovers at the beginning." Then those couples chose 1975 as the year to swear eternal love. Their wedding in 1975, the year the most unlucky accountant in the history of cinema (Fantozzi) appeared on the screens of a country ravaged by violence and the dawn of terrorism. But anniversaries rightly conflate everything, and that was also 1975: along with Pasolini's murder, the Circeo massacre, and the end of the Vietnam War, 220 couples from Cagliari were getting married.

The event, which Maurizio Porcelli has been organizing for almost 20 years, also featured a concert by Gigliola Cinquetti, who transformed the Teatro Massimo into a nightclub.

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