Searching for Truth: Constructing a Collective Memory of Aldo Moro in Italian Cinema
Journal: Carolina Digital Repository (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Year: 2019

This dissertation will address Aldo Moro’s presence in film and the changing manifestations of the politician in film throughout the years. I will argue that through film a comprehensive collective memory can be formed from examining what is known of the statesman, before and after his death, helping to ease the continuing sense of guilt felt by the Italian people in regards to his tragic end. In the first chapter of my dissertation I will discuss the concept of martyrdom in two films that depic