Three young people leave the psychiatric hospital to lead a “normal life” while working in the factory. They confide in their future prospects. In 1968, alarmed by the catastrophic state of public psychiatry in Italy, the communist municipality of Parma entrusted Mario Tommasini, a former gas worker, with the management of the mental health sector and its reorganization in a revolutionary fashion. This political initiative, inspired by Franco Basaglia, critic of the asylum institution and the origin of psychiatry outside the walls, marked the beginning of a vast undertaking of social integration of patients.
Originally titled “Nessuno o tutti” (“All or Nothing”) in reference to Brecht, this documentary is one of Marco Bellocchio’s most militant works, which has always been attentive to society’s prejudices about mental illness and their symbolic repercussions. Moving away from the canonical model of reporting, the film opens up to moments close to direct cinema. He follows the story of young offenders who broke up and left the reformatory to enter the asylum. Their testimonies, very strong, alternate with moments of collective denunciation, destined to proclaim that the ill-being and suffering of the protagonists are only the product of a corrupt and sick social structure. A collective film that is a manifesto in favor of Basaglia’s theses and in which the different sensibilities of intellectuals committed to this cause are put to good use.
Directors: Silvano Agosti, Marco Bellocchio, Sandro Petraglia, Stefano Rulli.
Cinematographer: Ezio Bellani. AKA Fit to be Untied
Composer: Nicola Piovani.
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Matti da Slegare is a spectacular film, but is a cipher to non-Italian speakers due to the VERY poor subtitles. The translator had zero understanding of psychology and early education, and consequently not only fluffs essentially all of the statements by the experts but makes them sound like nincompoops or brutes. Even the “rough” language of the underprivileged is mishandled, making them seem stupid and inarticulate (cagna and puttana are not interchangeable, and puttana has a much richer range of usage than the translator seems to realize!). I can’t conceive of any film that would benefit more from a careful translation by a team including a native Italian translator with an understanding of the psychology of education and an English language editor with the same (And a talent for idiomatic expression).
Thank you for providing a pristine raw of this fine film!
Thanks for the feedback on the subs, Helmut, maybe one day someone more skilled will improve the subtitles and make a more idiomatic translation, for what I can see the subs came from KG and a native Italian did them but his English probably wasn’t the best for this type of translation work, I think this film hasn’t been screened outside of Italy since the ’80s so these might be the only English subtitles available for this film for now.