Subversives: anti-fascists in the Parma area 1922-1943

The history of the anti-fascists of Parma from the barricades of 1922 to 1943.

The documentary is the ideal continuation of the long research work in the archives carried out a few years ago by historians and collaborators of Isrec which led to the publication of the book "In the network of the regime", which outlined the physiognomy of Parma's anti-fascism.
Between 1922 and 1943, fascist political repression united men and women of various social and political backgrounds in the same destiny of surveillance and persecution. Defining various levels of danger, the fascist regime supervised and punished the communist militants of the Oltretorrente, the bourgeoisie of democratic and republican culture, the peasants linked to the socialist tradition and the mountain priests opposed to Mussolini's wars. In the province of Parma there were over 2,700 registered.

The documentary tells the lives of persecuted anti-fascist politicians through the cards and photographs preserved in the State Archives, the images of the prison and the court. The human and political events of men such as Guido Picelli, Umberto Pagani, Remo Polizzi, Enrico Griffith, Luigi Porcari and many others that relive in the letters sent to their families from prison or confinement, in the sentences of the special court and in the papers of the fascist bureaucracy.