Directed by Lina Wertmüller, starring Giancarlo Giannini, Mariangela Melato, Agostina Belli, Livia Giampalmo, Luigi Diberti, Italy, 1972, 125’
As he explores the city, Mimì also passes through centrally-located Piazza Castello, in the company of his tour guide (not to mention his local lover), Fiorella. Mimì, a Sicilian workman, is married to young Rosalia, who is also Sicilian. He moved to Turin after being fired for his left-wing political ideas and because he refused to vote for a Mafioso. He discovers at his own expense that the Mafia has put its hands on the North, too, and returns to Catania, where a very unpleasant surprise awaits him…
Giancarlo Giannini and Mariangela Melato walk through a city teeming with life and people: in fact, Turin’s population peaked in the early 1970s. City locations visited by Giannini and Melato, one of the best-loved couples in Italian cinema, include Piazza della Repubblica, the Porta Palazzo market, Corso Vittorio Emanuele II, the Parco del Valentino and Corso Traiano, right in front of the main entrance of the Fiat Mirafiori factory, which was highly symbolic of industrial Turin in those years.
