The Organizer (Italian: I compagni) is a 1963 Italian drama film directed by Mario Monicelli about a group of factory workers in Turin who go on strike. The film had its premiere at the 35th Congress of the Italian Socialist Party. The script was nominated for the Academy Award.
The story of exploited textile factory workers in Turin, Italy at the turn of the century and their beginnings of their fight for better working conditions. Professor Sin...
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The Organizer (Italian: I compagni) is a 1963 Italian drama film directed by Mario Monicelli about a group of factory workers in Turin who go on strike. The film had its premiere at the 35th Congress of the Italian Socialist Party. The script was nominated for the Academy Award.
The story of exploited textile factory workers in Turin, Italy at the turn of the century and their beginnings of their fight for better working conditions. Professor Sinigaglia (Marcello Mastroianni) helps the workers organize their strike and give form to their struggle.
Italy’s first capital after the Risorgimento ended in the 1870s, Turin was in the midst of rapid industrialization during the period of The Organizer, although the film unfolds some years before the growth of the industry. Populating his densely inhabited film with actual workers, Monicelli was attempting, three years before The Battle of Algiers (1966), to create a sort of neorealist period piece; using a strategy that would subsequently...
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