Federico Aldrovandi has just turned eighteen years old when, at dawn on September 25, 2005, he met a police patrol near the racecourse, in Ferrara. A few hours later the family learned of his death. Between these two moments of silence and many many questions. The book covers the legal and human affairs related to the death of Frederick, the reconstructions of the police who speak of death by overdose, ... the wonder and pain of relatives and friends and a judicial inquiry initially used to store ... then the first suspect, the disfigured body of the boy, the official versions that are contradicted by the analysis, the involvement delle forze dell’ordine e i depistaggi. Lo scandalo, l’attenzione mediatica e il coraggio di una famiglia che, nel luglio del 2009, porteranno alle condanne in primo grado per quattro agenti di polizia. Nel DVD Filippo Vendemmiati racconta la storia di Federico Aldrovandi, i fatti accertati e misteri che li avvolgono, il processo e i suoi numerosi colpi di scena, tentando di fornire una spiegazione verosimile dell’accaduto proprio a partire da quegli interrogativi rimasti insoluti. La narrazione di Vendemmiati è arricchita dai documenti video registrati dagli stessi protagonisti, a disposizione nell’archivio giornalistico Rai.Federico Aldrovandi ha da poco compiuto diciotto anni quando, all’alba del 25 settembre 2005, meets a police patrol near the racecourse, in Ferrara. A few hours later the family learned of his death. Between these two moments of silence and many many questions. The book covers the legal and human affairs related to the death of Frederick, the reconstructions of the police who speak of death by overdose, the wonder and pain of relatives and friends and a judicial inquiry initially used to store ... then the first suspect, The disfigured body of the boy, the official versions that are contradicted by the analysis, the involvement of law enforcement and false leads. The scandal, the media attention and the courage of a family that, in July 2009, will convictions in first grade for four police officers. The DVD tells the story of Philip Vendemmiati Federico Aldrovandi, the facts found and the mysteries that surround them, the process and its many twists and turns, trying to provide a plausible explanation of what precisely from those questions remained unsolved. The narrative is enriched by Vendemmiati video files recorded by the protagonists themselves, Rai newspaper archive available.
"It was a dead guy" is also a story about freedom of the press Philip Vendemmiati
I began to deal in the history of Federico Aldrovandi not very beginning, and even this laziness and professional skepticism, the film tells. Rai as a reporter I had already followed the disaster investigations as military aircraft crashed on Dec. 6 of 90 on a school Casalecchio, and claimed the lives of twelve boys, ol'assassinio of Prof. Marco Biagi, by a command of the New BR, 19 March 2002.
s death could be done as others, but unlike others on this I decided to stop and consider, for once, it was worth telling the story and not the news. I kept the video cassette original notebooks with notes, all those disposable instruments that are now a journalist of the man who has always in a hurry, prey to a false (and hysterical) movement. I wanted to write a book of record, then the archive with hundreds of images has convinced me that they were the ones having to be told, so I decided to put myself at their service. It 's a story that has to do with the system information and justice, with the violence of institutions and the citizens' right to justice. Frederick's parents and their lawyers have gone on not being satisfied of official releases, collecting scraps of truth despite the many attempts to cover-up and deception that accompanied il caso fin dai primissimi istanti. Per arrivare infine ad una verità anche peggiore di quanto temessero, dopo aver aperto i cassetti dei ricordi e del dolore accettando di renderli pubblici. Ho parlato loro di questo progetto, ne ho ricevuto un consenso incondizionato, senza il quale non avrei mai iniziato. Il lavoro è durato un anno, e devo solo alla famiglia di Federico la forza e la voglia di arrivare in porto, perché la passione e l’impegno nella parte realizzativa si sono duramente scontrati contro ostacoli burocratici e legali.
Dice Patrizia, la mamma, nel film: “La notizia della morte di Federico dopo poche settimane era sparita dai giornali locali, è rimbalzata a Ferrara da fuori, dopo l’apertura del mio blog”.
Senza mai arrendersi, ricorrendo anche agli strumenti della comunicazione via internet, Patrizia e il marito, Lino, sono riusciti a far pubblicare la storia di Aldro sulle prime pagine dei media nazionali, e a dare impulso ed elementi investigativi ad un’inchiesta ormai destinata all’archiviazione. A quattro mesi dalla morte di Federico il fascicolo del pubblico ministero era infatti praticamente vuoto.
Nel film, che ha ottenuto l’appoggio dell’associazione Articolo 21 e della Federazione Nazionale della Stampa Italiana, oltre al patrocinio della Regione Emilia Romagna, ho utilizzato documenti originali, spezzoni dell’inchiesta, filmati d’archivio e inserti narrativi.
“È was a dead guy "is also a story about freedom of the press which focuses on the present and near future of information in Italy. If the gag law had been in force five years ago, without being able to publish the documents, pictures, transcripts of phone calls, you would never discover the truth about the death of Frederick and that of other similar cases that occurred before and after?
I've been called a young author. I am particularly grateful for the young, after all that counts is the perceived age. As for "author", the film will be the trial to determine the extent to which I have been able to be.
