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More Light in the World of the Homeless
Giorgio’s story Giorgio recently turned sixty. He is Italian and has had a precarious job for years. "I have always worked," he tells us when we meet him, "but you know how it is... sometimes as a freelancer, sometimes under the table, other times with a real contract... it depended on the circumstances and what I had to do." Time has passed quickly and now Giorgio finds himself in a ...
Poor But … Poor
The famous film by Dino Risi, Poveri ma belli, was made in 1956. Two more followed, composing a trilogy[1] in which poverty was explicitly mentioned in the titles but associated - unlike neorealist cinema - with the comedy genre. Italy in the 1950s was a poor country that had just emerged from the material devastation and destruction of World War II. The parliamentary inquiry of 1953 had indicated ...