A video project in celebration of Liberation Day and created in collaboration with schools.

 

To celebrate Liberation Day, the Piccolo Teatro di Milan has decided to collaborate with schools to create an educational video project entitled Milano Liberata. Cronaca di ore memnorabili, which will be broadcast on Sunday 25 April on the theatre’s social network profiles. The video is the final result of a process that began in January, involving students from the Virgilio high school in Milan. Under the guidance of the video maker Riccardo Frati, the youngsters were encouraged to study the history and memory of the country through personal and photographic documentation. The final result of the research is also an account of those days of Resistance, and of April 1945, which led to the liberation of Milan and the rest of Italy, presented in an original manner, with the viewpoint and sensitivity of the youngsters involved, who are of the same age of some of the partisans that gave their lives in the name of Freedom. The texts are read by the students themselves, providing a new echo to those dramatic moments that becomes the soundtrack to a video, interweaving the voices with period images, archive documentation and maps of the city as it appeared at the time, with the emotional geography of the places and the streets that served as the theatre for Resistance and Liberation.