Women in the Revolt

How it feels

This documentary uses archive footage and interviews to trace how Italian women resisted the church, the Christian Democrats, patriarchy, and Mussolini. It begins with an attack on a feminist radio station in Rome in 1979 and covers 80 years of women's resistance.

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What happens

Donna: Women in Revolt (Dutch: Donna: Vrouwen in verzet) is a documentary film from 1980 directed by Yvonne Scholten. The film is part of the second feminist movement and was distributed by the Amsterdam Feminist Film Collective Cinemien. The film's starting point is the attack on 9 January 1979 by a fascist commando on Radio Donna, a feminist radio station in Rome. The film is a documentary that depicts 80 years of women's resistance based on archive footage and interviews. The documentary shows how Italian women resisted the church, the Christian Democrats, patriarchy and Mussolini. The film has been restored by the programme A Season of Classics supported by Creative Europe. Since its restoration, it has been screener in many festivals and cinematheques in Europe, for example in Rome, Milano, Düsseldorf, Amsterdam and Lugano at the Film Festival Diritti Umani Lugano. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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