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THE ENEMY - A PARTISAN HYMNBOOK

IL NEMICO - UN BREVIARIO PARTIGIANO

By Federico SPINETTI

Art - Culture - Completed 2015

A gunshot echoes from 1944, leading post-punk musician Massimo Zamboni to uncover his family’s past. Private memories collide with collective history as a new musical project is born. The Enemy – A Partisan Hymnbook is a music documentary about the memory of the Italian WWII Resistance.

- Year of production
- 2015
- Genres
- Art - Culture, Musical, Documentary
- Countries
- ITALY
- Languages
- ITALIAN
- Budget
- 0.3 - 0.6 M$
- Duration
- 80 mn
- Director(s)
- Federico SPINETTI
- Writer(s)
- Federico SPINETTI, Alberto VALTELLINA, Andrea ZANOLI
- Cast
- Massimo ZAMBONI, Gianni MAROCCOLO, Angela BARALDI, Giorgio CANALI, Francesco MAGNELLI, Simone FILIPPI
- Producer(s)
- Alberto VALTELLINA (Lab 80 film)
- Synopsis
- Fifteen years after the break-up of the historic Italian post-punk band C.S.I, the band’s guitarist and co-founder Massimo Zamboni calls back the other members for a new musical project about the memory of the Italian WWII partisan resistance. Rather than a reunion, this may be a new beginning.
  At the request of director Federico Spinetti, the musicians gather in the mesmerizing architecture of the Social Theatre of Gualtieri, a town in the Po Valley replete with memories of the war. Zamboni hands out a text to be set to music: The Enemy. The musicians allow the cameras in and their creative process becomes the soundtrack of the film, together with new songs and live performances of their classics.
  The Enemy – A Partisan Hymnbook portrays the new musical journey of post-C.S.I. and the research and reflections of Massimo Zamboni as he uncovers his family history, tragically marked by a partisan gunshot in 1944. Private memories collide with collective history as the musicians interrogate the memory of the WWII Resistance and its meaning today.