Nilde Iotti

Collection title

FIGU : Album di persone notevoli

ID

RAI00258

Source

RAI (IT)

First broadcast date

12/06/2010

Production year

2010

Abstract

Portrait of the politician Leonilde Iotti, known as Nilde, the first woman elected President of the Chamber of Deputies in Italy in 1979. The documentary reminds her political career and her long relationship, considered scandalous at that time, with the national secretary of the Italian Communist Party (PCI) Palmiro Togliatti, older than her and already married.

Type

video

Production companies

• RAI - Own production

Broadcaster

RAI - RAI Tre

Audiovisual form

Portrait

Personalities

• Iotti Nilde

Primary theme

Contemporary historical challenges 19th-20th c.

Credits / Cast

• Rebecchi Alessandro - Author of original work
• Freeman Peter - Author of original work

Period of events

• 1979

Map locations

• Italy - Centre

Original language

Italian

Media running time

5m27

Additional information

Photos and stock footage of Nilde Iotti.