From the harsh reconstruction of the country after the devastation of the Second World War to the resounding economic boom of the 1960s. This is the historical period narrated in the great photographic exhibition. 15 years in which a destroyed and exhausted country succeeded in overcoming the traumas of war giving rise to a tumultuous economic, social, imaginary development, admired throughout the world. An unrepeatable, exciting and contradictory moment, a story so intense that it is still a significant legacy of our present.

The exhibition “Il sorpasso“, an obvious reference to the iconic film of an era by Dino Risi, is the portrait – one frame after another – of the country when it enters forever in modernity: political life and private life, the struggles for work and costume revolutions, the construction of highways and the blossoming of an imaginary celluloid, the change of the landscape and the mutation of the face of a country that has been immobile for decades. To unite everything, the idea of ​​Italy that accelerates and gains positions even with traits of aggressiveness and vulgarity, as the mad race of the film Lancia Aurelia teaches. It is an Italy that surpasses its archaic and backward traits, going ahead despite enormous problems that often remain unresolved, the consequence of a development that is too fast, often unbalanced.

Organized by the Istituto Luce-Cinecittà and promoted by the Department of Culture of the Municipality of Parma in collaboration with the CSAC – Center for Studies and Communication Archive of the University of Parma, it is curated by Enrico Menduni and Gabriele D’Autilia.

Info: www.comune.parma.it/cultura/evento/it-IT/mostra-il-sorpasso-palazzo-del-governatore-parma.aspx