Film Commission Torino Piemonte

The film opens with Primo Levi interviewed a few months before his death. He says that, in spite of many problems, he still believes in democracy. The interviewer gets excited and says: “Democracy is a religion!”. Levi looks at him a little surprised and comments: “No, it’s a technique”. The concept of democracy as a technique, not as a dogma, is essential: for instance, trying to “export” a technique where there’s no cultural background to support it will end in bitter disappointments, as we have seen in recent years. Probably this is at the heart of the predicament where western democracies find themselves these days: the aging of a technique in an era of huge sociological changes. But what do we really know about the way democracy works? That’s where the idea for this film comes from: to shoot the work of the Camera dei Deputati day by day, somewhere between a National Geographic documentary and a Fred Wiseman film, with the aim to describe the meaning of “politics” from within.