Alla fine della nuvola
2020
Synopsis
What would happen if a parish priest decided to close the church over the Christmas period for absence of religious principles of solidarity and moral justice in the beliefs of his believers? Numbers on the arms, landings denied, lives drowned, injured dignity, a hot intertwining of causes and consequences inflicted by man on man. It could happen that one of those believer, a teacher, takes this gesture of resistance to teach his students a lesson, recalling that Calamandrei who cited, in a harangue in favor of Danilo Dolci in the fifties, the laws of Antigone and the possibility of disobeying unjust laws in the name of superior justice, enshrined in its Constitution. Fascinated by the task, the students are enraptured by the strength of words so far away that they seem new: "Freedom is like air, you understand how much it is worth when it starts lacking. When you feel that sense of asphyxiation that men of my generation have felt for twenty years, and that I wish you, young people, never to feel ", pronounced in the tone of a sweet despair. And if even one of those students can transform those sentences, learned by heart, into an action, then it would not matter if in the end that parish priest who chose to close the church found himself in a process, defending himself, like Danilo Dolci for violating some safety rules after fighting against mafia in Sicily. Creon and Antigone will always disagree, but the action of a man, once started, can live in a new action and another s
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