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...students and young workers descended on Bologna 20,000 strong. Most were dressed in faded jeans, and T shirts or windbreakers; some had daubed their faces with paint, imitating American Indians on the warpath. They surged through the graceful colonnaded streets into the vast Piazza Maggiore for a first skirmish with their avowed enemy: the Italian Communist Party (P.C.I.). As the throngs approached Bologna's huge Renaissance-style city hall, a handful of middle-aged Communist apparatchiks emerged to confront them. "We have been fighting to change things in Italy since 1944," a party militant told a bearded young...
Thus began an improbable three-day conflict between youthful extremists who regard themselves as Marx's true heirs and Europe's largest and most innovative Communist Party. The ultras had come to Bologna from all over Italy for a weekend convention held to protest Communist "repression." They claim that the Communist Party, in its eagerness to share power with the Christian Democrats, has become a pillar of the Establishment and hates them for saying...
Specifically, the demonstrators suspect Bologna party leaders, who have proudly and smoothly ruled that city for 32 years, of conspiring with the police in the arrest of 100 student leaders last March. The trouble began when an auxiliary policeman killed a student who had joined in a leftist attack on a moderate Catholic group. The boy's death sent thousands of students out of overcrowded Bologna University, whose 60,000 volatile undergraduates face a bleak future in Italy's recession-bound economy. For three days, the students occupied a 20-block commercial area, manhandling citizens, looting stores...
...riots were deeply mortifying to the Communists, especially since they took place in Bologna, which the party has always pointed to as a paradigm of how it would work within a pluralistic society. Stung by the protests, Bologna party leaders suspected Italy's secret service, the CIA or other foreign intelligence outfits of manipulating extremists in order to discredit the Communists. Party leaders are especially bitter about a Parisian manifesto signed by 26 leftist intellectuals, including Writer Jean-Paul Sartre, accusing the Italian party of brutally putting down the students in Bologna...
...historical incident, turns on a double irony. Giannini is driven not by evil but by a warped nobility. In plotting the murder of Deneuve's cruel and boorish husband, he enmeshes his idealistic, freethinking family in an elaborate, tawdry scandal In turn, the forces of Catholic conservatism in Bologna, especially the police and press, are impelled by hysterical fear and hatred of socialism to pillory the entire family. As the old scientist (Fernando Key) muses bitterly: "A man who kills an other man commits a reprehensible act. But a society that kills a man, his family, justice - that...