La macchina delle immagini di Alfredo C

April 1939 Fascist Italy occupies Albania Thousands of Italian workers settlers and technicians are transferred to the country November 1944 Albania is liberated The new Communist government closes the borders and places dozens of conditions on Italy for the repatriation of its citizens In 1945 27000 Italian veterans and civilians were still held in Albania Among them there is a cameraman Alfredo C An operator of the Fascist propaganda effort he has been traveling around Albania with his movie camera for five years Before that for almost two decades he had immortalised the great machine of the regime Now by a twist of fate being the only cameraman around Alfredo has been asked to work on behalf of Communist propaganda Shut up in his storeroom surrounded by thousands of reels of film Alfredo watches what he has shot again on an old Moviola It is his film that we are watching And perhaps not his alone