Donna: Women in Revolt

Donna: Women in Revolt
DutchDonna: vrouwen in verzet
LiterallyDonna: Women in revolt
Directed byYvonne Scholten
Written byYvonne Scholten
Edited byYvonne Scholten
Production
company
IKON TV
Distributed byThe Eye Filmmuseum
Release date
  • 1980 (1980)
Running time
66 minutes
CountryNetherlands
LanguageItalian

Donna: Women in Revolt (Dutch: Donna: Vrouwen in verzet) is a documentary film from 1980 directed by Yvonne Scholten. The film is part of the second feminist movement and was distributed by the Amsterdam Feminist Film Collective Cinemien. The film's starting point is the attack on 9 January 1979 by a fascist commando on Radio Donna, a feminist radio station in Rome.[1] The film is a documentary that depicts 80 years of women's resistance based on archive footage and interviews. The documentary shows how Italian women resisted the church, the Christian Democrats, patriarchy and Mussolini.[2] The film has been restored by the programme A Season of Classics supported by Creative Europe.[3] Since its restoration, it has been screener in many festivals and cinematheques in Europe, for example in Rome,[4] Milano,[5] Düsseldorf,[6] Amsterdam[7] and Lugano at the Film Festival Diritti Umani Lugano.[8]

Background

Yvonne Scholten is a journalist and documentary director. In the 1970s and 1980s, she was a correspondent in Italy for Dutch broadcasters and newspapers.[1] Yvonne Scholten used the method of oral history to gather women's points of view on their own history and their fight for recognition and rights.[9] DONNA is her unique film. She then worked as an editor for Dutch TV until 2004.[10]

Reception

The film was broadcast on the Dutch IKON TV[10] and distributed in the Netherlands by the Collective Cinemien.[7]

References

  1. 1 2 "Yvonne Scholten L'Aia 1943 - vivente" (in Italian). Retrieved 13 October 2025.
  2. ↑ "Le storie di resistenza e diritti" (in Italian). Retrieved 13 October 2025.
  3. ↑ "Meet the Archive 2023: Donna: Vrouwen in verzet". March 2025. Retrieved 13 October 2025.
  4. ↑ "La regista Yvonne Scholten presenta il suo documentario datato 1980, dedicato a otto decadi di resistenza al femminile in Italia" (in Italian). Retrieved 13 October 2025.
  5. ↑ "Donna: Women in Revolt. 80 anni di Resistenza delle donne in Italia" (in Italian). Retrieved 13 October 2025.
  6. ↑ "Proiezione del film "Donna: Women in Revolt"" (in Italian). Retrieved 13 October 2025.
  7. 1 2 "A-Season-of-Classic-Films_Programme-catalogue-2023" (PDF). Retrieved 13 October 2025.
  8. ↑ "DONNA: WOMEN IN REVOLT - Film Festival Diritti Umani Lugano". www.festivaldirittiumani.ch (in Italian). Retrieved 13 October 2025.
  9. ↑ Cecilia Valenti. "feminist elsewheres - La lotta non è finita & Donna: Vrouwen in verzet". Retrieved 13 October 2025.
  10. 1 2 "Out of competition" (in Italian). Retrieved 13 October 2025.
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