The last days of humanity by Karl Kraus, a mammoth drama - almost 800 pages in the Adelphi edition - staged by Luca Ronconi in the Lingotto in Turin, broadcast by Rai

The double meaning in french of film title MINEURS resume the sense of the film: mineurs as children and as mineworkers in the coalmines. Italy, at the beginning of the sixties. In a little village in Lucanie, little region in the south, four children live in a situation of absolute poverty, but with their plays in the street succeed in living in happiness. In the air the menace and, in the same time, the hope of a telephonic convocation by their relatives, already at work in coalmines in Belgie, in the mine district of Limburg. Two of our children leave with their families, to reach the numerous Italian community of Flandres. The children will have a lot of problems, in the school and with the language, to integrate in a hostile ambient, but, at the end the will succeed.

Seventies in Italy. In Sardinia a group of criminals kidnaps a well-known public figure in search of redemption. For Giovanni, the leader of a small but determined local gang, known for his long kidnappings on the inland hills, will be an opportunity to confront a wiser and more informed person than he is. Inspired by the true story of Fabrizio De Andrè.

A white and a blue collar worker fall in love during the 1980 strike at FIAT that marked the end for labor movement in Italy.