Keeping the Unrest in the Heart Alive
KEEPING THE UNREST IN THE HEART ALIVE
The Rebel Ignazio Silone - Christian without a Church, Socialist without a Party
Ignazio Silone, the "Christian without a church, the socialist without a party", was an awkward man for those in power. From his earliest youth he could not accept injustice, even when it was others who suffered from it. Minding one's own business was the basic condition for a decent, quiet life in the poor Italian Abruzzo, the author's homeland. His inclination not only to mind his own business but also to make friends with poorer companions of his own age was to have very serious consequences for him.
The programme "Keeping the Unrest in the Heart Alive" describes Ignazio Silone's life, from his active revolutionary underground work against the Fascists to his work as the author of famous novels that are now counted among the important works of Italian literature. Few writers have lived through and grappled with the problems of political ideology and religious faith as intensely as Ignazio Silone. At the end of his life stands an age-old insight: that it is an illusion to want to renew human beings from the outside.
| VOICES | Birgitta Assheuer, Marianne Lochert, Doris Wolters, Klaus Barner, Matthias Haase |
| MUSIC | Johann Sebastian Bach, Ernst Helmuth Flammer, Jean Sibelius, Eric Satie, Scriabin, folk music from the Abruzzo |
| DIRECTOR | Heinz Nesselrath |
| SOUND ENGINEER | Alfred Habelitz and Christiane Köhler |
| EDITOR | Gerhard Adler |
| DURATION | 85 minutes |
| FIRST BROADCAST | SWR 27.2.2005; RadioART: Feature am Sonntag |