The Battleship Potemkin

It is June 16, 1952. On the steps of the university surrounded by police cordons, Caccioppoli gives a tough, worried speech. Two hundred students listen to him. He speak in favour of peace, but above all against the arrival in Naples of the new commander of the NATO forces in Europe, General Matthew B. Ridgway, the “plague man” accused of having used bacteriological weapons in Korea. And not only this. He launches invectives against the US marines lodged in a hotel opposite. His speech causes an uproar. At the end of the day, as he heads home, he is stopped by police officers. They take him to the police station, where they detain him for over 2 hours. He is accused of having organized the demonstration and stirring up the students.