The film focuses on the long history of the European integration process from the Greek and Roma period onwards until the present in 1962. With Altiero Spinelli as a consultant , the documentary emphasizes the importance of the federal idea (e.g. the Ventotene Manifesto) and demands to establish not only a European constitutional assembly but to hold also general European elections.

Genre
Compilation Film

Credits
Production Country: Italy
Film Production Company: La PROA Produttori Associati
Commissioning Institution: Unknown
Director: Vittorio Gallo
Producer: Unknown
Script: Unknown
Historical Advisor: Altiero Spinelli
Cinematography: Antonio Borghese
Film Editing: Giuliana Bettoja
Music: Egisto Macchi

Technical Information
Original Film Format: Unknown
Duration: 10 minutes
Colour: Colour

Cultural Heritage of Europe, European History, Constantin the Great, Christianity, Monastery, Charlemagne, Montesquieu, Voltaire, French Revolution, Risorgimento, First World War, Second World War, Fascism, Nuremberg Trials, Ventotene Manifesto, European Federalism, European Coal and Steel Community, European Economic Community, Resistance Movement, Concentration Camps, Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler, Giovine Europeo, Giuseppe Mazzini, Carlo Cattaneo, Eugen Kogon, Luigi Einaudi, Ernesto Rossi, Altiero Spinelli, Jean Monnet, Alcide De Gasperi

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Italian

Video

Presidenza del Consiglio dello Stato, Rome

The film was digitised from the copy located at the Presidenza del Consiglio dello Stato, Rome.

Bruch, Anne: 'La lunga strada per l'unità europea'. The Construction of European Identity through Official Information Films produced by the Italian Government in the 1950s and 1960s", in: I. Amodeo; C. Liermann; E. Pichler; S. Matteo (ed.):Why Europe? German-Italian Reflections on a Common Topic, Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2016, pp. 37-44.