Word: rocco
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...scene is a barren mountain area in southern Italy; the time, just after the liberation. Rocco de Donatis, the local Communist leader, is growing death-tired of party lines. "You have the sadness," an old woman tells him, "of one who set out to go very far and ends up by finding himself where he began. Didn't they teach you at school that the world is round...
When a Communist troubleshooter, sent down from Rome, asks him why he refuses to speak in public any more, Rocco tells him that, the last few times, he has had a terrifying experience: "While I was speaking, I could hear my own voice as though it belonged to someone else. It never happens when I'm saying what I think." Rocco quits the party...
...mistress Stella hangs on in the party, trying to help the leaders bring Rocco back. But when she is asked to hunt for some damaging "false documents," Stella wonders if the manuscripts really lie. The party man sets her straight; "You know the infallible criterion of the Party: anything that harms Russia is false...
Stella leaves the party, too, and marries Rocco. And Rocco continues to fight for what he has always fought for while the Communists attempt by lies and persecution to force the two of them into exile. At the end, Rocco is still hanging on, still fighting for social justice-"next year, or 60, or even 2,000 years from...
...Salvador, there were farewell banquets and tearful speeches. At El Mo rocco the question was: Would the prodi gal return? His old friends were doubtful...