When elephants clash
Director Simone Amendola
Countries
Duration 93 min
Synopsis
The working class no longer goes to heaven. On August 15, 2008, the company which manages the Italian railway system sacked, for the second time, the driver and delegate for safety Dante De Angelis for having publicly revealed the risks of high velocity trains. Such is the paradoxical end of this film which, besides the story of Dante’s first dismissal, tells of the struggles of Italian railway workers cast off by the state and by their unions and compelled to work without regulation. The precarious situation of the railway workers parallels the conditions of an adolescent subjected to the deaf choices of parents, as in the case of Lessyta, the 15 year-old black student who refuses to leave her house by the railway tracks where she was born and raised.
The working class no longer goes to heaven. On August 15, 2008, the company which manages the Italian railway system sacked, for the second time, the driver and delegate for safety Dante De Angelis for having publicly revealed the risks of high velocity trains. Such is the paradoxical end of this film which, besides the story of Dante’s first dismissal, tells of the struggles of Italian railway workers cast off by the state and by their unions and compelled to work without regulation. The precarious situation of the railway workers parallels the conditions of an adolescent subjected to the deaf choices of parents, as in the case of Lessyta, the 15 year-old black student who refuses to leave her house by the railway tracks where she was born and raised.