<i>I dannati della terra:</i> The Italian left facing the Third World on the eve of 1968

The Italian film I dannati della terra ( Damned of the Earth ) (Orsini and Filippi is a prominent example connection between European cinema intervention Third World struggles 1960s. Set as ‘film within film’, movie tells story leftist filmmaker, Fausto Morelli, who faces challenge finishing about liberation sub-Saharan Africa by building on documentary footage that was bequeathed to him his student friend, young Abramo Malonga, an African (Bantu). This article recovers overlooked little-known documents show it expression active cinematic Worldism forged in previous years legacy Resistenza Partigiana (Italian Resistance) At same time, analyses ways which ‘dialogues’ with experimental trends contemporary avant-garde artistic scene order viewer debate ‘open ideological hypothesis’ take part political time.