L'Europa prima dell'Europa (2015)

During the World War II something was happening in a small Italian islands, on the Tyrrenian Sea. Here, indeed, three men - Altiero Spinelli, Ernesto Rossi and Eugenio Colorni - were confined; during this time they were thinking about a different future, of peace and collaboration between peoples. From that idea the "Manifesto di Ventotene" was born: a plan for a free and unite Europe. There is a woman too with them: Ursula Hirschmann. Ursula is Colorni's wife, and she hides the "Manifesto" inside a dress lining to make it arrive in Rome without being seen with the aim to print and spread it. Many years later, in 1970, Altiero Spinelli was elected European Commissioner for Industrial Policies, and in 1976 he was elected deputy of the Italian Parliament as independent. A few months later, he enters the European Parliament. His dream has finally come true.