SOTTO L’ALTO PATRONATO DEL

PRESIDENTE DELLA REPUBBLICA ITALIANA
MINISTERO PER I BENI E LE ATTIVITÀ CULTURALI

CON IL PATROCINIO DI

SENATO DELLA REPUBBLICA
CAMERA DEI DEPUTATI
MINISTERO DEGLI AFFARI ESTERI
COMUNE DI TORINO
PROVINCIA DI TORINO
REGIONE PIEMONTE
MUSEO NAZIONALE DEL CINEMA

MOSTRA A CURA DI
MARCELLO SORGI

Torino, Museo Nazionale del Cinema
Mole Antonelliana
Dal 14 febbraio al 16 marzo 2008

IL SECOLO DELL’AVVOCATO

Gianni Agnelli was Italy’s most important industrialist. A well-known figure abroad, he was the head of one of the world’s greatest entrepreneurial dynasties. He was also the much-envied and unreachable model of a certain type of Italian, a minority nowadays; he was elegant, an important publisher, a major art collector and art lover, an avid sportsman. As a soldier, he saw combat in Africa and in Russia and he fought alongside the American troops for Italy’s Liberation. A true protagonist of the “brief century” in which he lived, he was confronted with every type of situation: capitalism and Communism, real war and the Cold War, Fascism and a regime under the Christian Democrats, terrorism, globalization and major economic crises. An extraordinary life, which these images recall and endeavor to reconstruct.