The story of a girl. Giovanna

Abstract

The first Gillo Pontecorvo’s medium-length film, after his apprenticeship as documentary maker, is a work initially included within the collective film Die Windrose, focused on women’s condition in some of the major European countries and commissioned by Woman’s International Democratic Federation. Despite the cuts imposed during the production, the first Pontecorvo’s cinema hallmarks can be already pointed out; specifically, the political inspiration and the storytelling’s polyphonic dimension. The story of Giovanna, a factory worker, and her coworkers, struggling against the collective dismissal disposed by their company’s governance. Style, between Neorealism trespassing and Soviet avant-garde influences.