Giovanna Filming Locations
Where was Giovanna filmed? Giovanna was filmed in 1 locations across Italy in the following places:
Giovanna Filming Locations
Prato is a city and comune in Tuscany, Italy, and is the capital of the province of Prato. The city lies in the northeast of Tuscany, at an elevation of 65 metres, at the foot of Monte Retaia. With 195,213 inhabitants as of 1 January 2023, Prato is Tuscany's second largest city and the third largest in Central Italy.
Giovanna (1955)
This short is set in the early 1950s in a small textile factory in central Italy (Prato). Giovanna and her fellow female workers decide to enact a protest against the direction of the factory's dismissal plan, by occupying the factory and continuing to work until the proprietor cancels the dismissals. None of these women can really afford to lose their jobs, as it is the only income in the family. All workers receive moral and material support from their families, apart from Giovanna, who bravely endures her husband's disapproval. Almost all the women hold out for thirty-five days in spite of the proprietor's attempts to break their resistance. At first he blocks the road to the factory, then he cuts off electric power to increase their isolation; finally, he tries to convince them to accept the dismissal of at least a smaller number of them. But the women overcome these obstacles, determined to resist...