Orchestra di Piazza Vittorio, The

The Orchestra di Piazza Vittorio combines music, interviews, solidarity and human comedy. Created at the instigation of Mario Tronco, a film score composer and pianist with the Piccola Orchestra Avion Travel and the collective Apollo 11, this musical group has its roots in a working-class district of Rome where the Italians are "an ethnic minority". Shot over a five-year period, from the birth of the orchestra to its recent successes, this documentary brings together thirty professional and street musicians of various nationalities (some of them illegal), five cameramen, and three sound engineers. The film highlights and echoes aspects of contemporary Italy, representative of a varied sociological and...