Antonio Gramsci: The Days of Prison

Antonio Gramsci, who was sentenced to twenty years in prison by the courts fascists, relives the stages of his political career and private life: in particular the founding of the Communist Party, the futile resistance to the offensive of the Right, the marriage, the arrest, the conflict with Togliatti. In prison, he first is considered a hero, then avoided because of his contrarian views on Stalin and the authoritarian involution of the USSR. Discharged from prison for health reasons, died in 1937 at a clinic in Rome. Portrait often didactic, but almost always convincing, one of the fathers of modern socialism.