The communist who united Italy's workers — until his own party betrayed him.
Season 1 • Episode 2
LatestThe extraordinary life story of Giuseppe Di Vittorio, elected first secretary of the CGIL trade union after the war and member of the Constituent Assembly in the ranks of the Italian Communist Party. A man committed, until his death, to fighting for workers' unity.
Acting
Pierfrancesco Favino's volcanic presence fills every frame.
Production
Reconstructed 1940s-50s Italy with obsessive period detail.
Pierfrancesco Favino
Giuseppe 'Peppino' Di Vittorio
Raffaella Rea
Carolina Di Vittorio
Giuseppe Zeno
Barone Orlando Rubino
Federica De Cola
Anita
Massimo Wertmüller
Palmiro Togliatti
Anna Ferzetti
Baronessa Santamaria
Anna Ferruzzo
Di Vittorio's mother
Emilio Bonucci
Achille Grandi
Francesco Salvi
Bruno Buozzi
Andrea Bosca
Vindice Di Vittorio
Frank Crudele
Don Luca
Francesco De Vito
Maestro Parreca
Christo Jivkov
Actor
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Favino spent months studying Di Vittorio's actual speeches, adopting his distinctive Lucanian accent that mixed rural dialect with polished oratory.
The CGIL still uses Di Vittorio's 'Bread and Freedom' slogan; this series aired during a 2009 union crisis, making its message uncomfortably timely.
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