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Working Slowly (Radio Alice) (2004)

Working Slowly (Radio Alice) poster
Original title
Lavorare con lentezza
Directed by
Guido Chiesa
Genre
drama film
Country
Italy
Runtime
1h 51m
Rating
6.4 of 10 from 43 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

The film follows people involved with a pirate radio station in 1970s Italy. It portrays their political activism and personal lives during that era.

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What happens

Working Slowly (Radio Alice) (Italian: Lavorare con lentezza) is a 2004 Italian drama film directed by Guido Chiesa. It is based on actual events involving Radio Alice, a 1970s pirate radio which was politically aligned with the autonomism movement. It entered the competition at the 61st Venice International Film Festival, in which Tommaso Ramenghi and Marco Luisi won the Marcello Mastroianni Award. The Wu Ming collective is also credited as co-writers of the screenplay. The film is published under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA license, and can be downloaded from Archive.org (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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