original title:
Porno & libertà
directed by:
cast:
Riccardo Schicchi, Lasse Braun, Giuliana Gamba, Antonio Veneziani, Francesco Coniglio, Achille Bonito Oliva, Giampiero Mughini, Marco Pannella, Ilona Staller, Helena Velena, Sergio Rovasio, Giorgio Rusconi, Marco Giusti, Lidia Ravera, Fiorella Etro, Vincenzo Sparagna
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distribution:
country:
Italy
year:
2015
film run:
78'
format:
HD/DCP - colour
release date:
24/06/2016
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PORNO E LIBERTA is the first documentary giving an insight on the Italian 70’s and tracing porn’s incredible genesis from the first magazines, photoshoots, censorship issues to its political and social repercussions — such as the election of Porn-star Ilona Staller (Cicciolina), the first to become parliament’s member.
It also offers food for thought about the 70’s & 80’s periods, years of transformations in which, pornography became a tool of protest and liberation, a real language.
The documentary brings to light a wide range of exclusive materials and interviews – pornographers, porn stars, writers, intellectuals, philosophers and feminists, from Lasse Braun to Riccardo Schicchi, from Marco Pannella to Ilona Staller, from Helena Velena to Judith Malina – who recall and recount what deserves to be defined as the most important sexual revolution in decades.