Cinema at the Institute: L’ITALIANO AL CINEMA, L’ITALIANO NEL CINEMA
WE CAN DO IT
Year: 2008
Duration: 111 min
Director: Giulio Manfredonia
Cast: Claudio Bisio, Anita Caprioli, Andrea Bosca, Giovanni Calcagno, Giuseppe Battiston
Genre: Comedy/ Drama
Set in Italy in the early 1980s the film follows Nello (Claudio Bisio), the recently hired director of a newly developed work cooperative of former mental patients. After the closure of state psychiatric hospitals and asylums in Italy under the Basaglia Law many former patients were left with few resources and little hope of reintegrating into society. With the intention of actually improving the lives of his pupils, rather than just sedating them, Nello encourages them to expand their individual abilities and explore the wider world around them although, regardless of intention, there is sometimes a price to pushing boundaries too quickly. “We can do it” maintains a sometimes troubled, but ultimately unwavering faith in human nature and human potential.
In Italian with subtitles in English.
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