"A man dies that Italy desperately needs today." This is Alessandro Galante Garrone's farewell to the Cavaliere dei Rossomori after his death on March 5, 1975. The Emilio Lussu Study Center presents "Waiting for Lussu", a rich program of events, until December 30, to celebrate, in view of the fiftieth anniversary of his death, a central figure in Sardinian and Italian history of the twentieth century.
In Cagliari, at the Teatro Adriano, on December 18, the film “Lussu” by Fabio Segatori will be presented at 6:30 p.m., with an introduction by Vito Biolchini and a speech by Gabriele Serra, president of the Centro studi Emilio Lussu. Also at the Teatro Adriano, on December 19, at the same time, a meeting dedicated to the film “Uomini contro” by Francesco Rosi will be held, introduced by Antonello Zanda. On December 30, at the Manifattura Tabacchi, at 7 p.m., the program will close with the theatrical show “Fuga da Lipari”, written and directed by Gianluca Medas.
But the path of the celebrations also develops through the Circolo Quattro Mori in Rivoli where today, Monday 16 December, the film “Lussu. The trial” by Gianluca Medas is being previewed, and through the Fondazione Circolo Rosselli in Florence for a new screening of the film. The Florentine event, scheduled for Tuesday 17 December, will be attended, among others, by Valdo Spini, president of the Scientific Committee of the Study Center and university professor Aldo Berlinguer, coordinator of the scientific committee. On 27 December, the stop in Orani for a conference entitled “Lussu: A man, an era, a vision”. Then the trip to Sicily: on 28 December in Lipari, the place of confinement, at the Municipal Auditorium, with another screening of the film “Lussu. The trial” in the presence of director Gianluca Medas and producer Massimo Casula.
The Life of the Knight of the Reds
«Lussu's political action - explains Valdo Spini, president of the scientific committee of the Emilio Lussu Study Center - was closely linked to that of Carlo Rosselli in the context of "Giustizia e Libertà". His biography is legendary in many ways and still constitutes a great source of interest increased by his brilliant work as a writer. Very important - concludes Spini - was also his autonomist drive in favor of Sardinia with very current ideas and values».
