When Life in Peactime opens, on May 29, 2015, engineer Ivo Brandani
is sixty-nine years old. He's disillusioned and angry but morbidly
attached to life. As he makes a day-long trip home from his job in
Sharm el Sheik reconstructing the coral reefs of the Red Sea using
synthetics, he reflects on both the brief time he sees remaining
ahead and on everything that has happened already in his life to
which he can never quite resign himself. We see his slow
bureaucratic trudge as a civil servant, long summer vacations on a
Greek island, his twisted relationship with his first boss, the
turmoil and panic attacks he faced during the student uprisings in
1968 that pushed him away from philosophy and into engineering, and
his fearful childhood as a postwar evacuee. A close-up portrait of
an ordinary existence, Life in Peacetime offers a new look at the
postwar era in Italy and the fundamental contradictions of a
secure, middle-class life.
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