{"id":7526,"date":"2022-06-13T18:20:36","date_gmt":"2022-06-13T16:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.classic2vintage.com\/?p=7526"},"modified":"2024-05-24T20:56:18","modified_gmt":"2024-05-24T18:56:18","slug":"the-mattei-affair-1972-the-mistery-that-is-not-a-mistery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.classic2vintage.com\/en\/the-mattei-affair-1972-the-mistery-that-is-not-a-mistery\/","title":{"rendered":"THE MATTEI AFFAIR (1972) \u2013 THE MISTERY THAT IS NOT A MISTERY"},"content":{"rendered":"

 [vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” top_padding=”50″ bottom_padding=”50″ text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” shape_type=””][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][nectar_single_testimonial testimonial_style=”bold” color=”Accent-Color” quote=”These days there is a lot of talk about Italian energy independence, given that there is a need to disengage from the current enemy of the "masters" with crawling stars. Energy independence, the real one, has been within our reach for decades and has been hampered by the same leeches who today want to impose further sacrifices on us for their economic and political interests.” name=”Daniele Pieraccini”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” top_padding=”30″ text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” centered_text=”true” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][image_with_animation image_url=”7554″ animation=”Fade In” hover_animation=”none” alignment=”center” img_link_large=”yes” border_radius=”none” box_shadow=”none” image_loading=”default” max_width=”100%” max_width_mobile=”default”][vc_column_text]Enrico Mattei<\/em>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” top_padding=”30″ text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][divider line_type=”No Line” custom_height=”50″][vc_column_text]\n

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\u00abWe Italians have to get rid of this inferiority complex that we were taught, that Italians are good writers, good poets, good singers, good guitar players, good people, but they do not have the skills of the great industrial organization. Remember, friends from other countries: these are things that made us believe and are now teaching you too. This is all false and we are an example of it. You must have faith in yourself, in your possibilities, in your tomorrow; you have to train this tomorrow for yourself\u00bb.<\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n
<\/div>\n[\/vc_column_text][divider line_type=”No Line” custom_height=”20″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” top_padding=”30″ text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column_text]These days there is a lot of talk about Italian energy independence, given that there is a need to disengage from the current enemy of the \u201cmasters\u201d with crawling stars. Energy independence, the real one, has been within our reach for decades and has been hampered by the same leeches who today want to impose further sacrifices on us for their economic and political interests.<\/p>\n

Basilicata, for example, literally floats on oil. As early as 1400 the inhabitants saw tongues of fire produced by methane; the first research activities began in the 1900s, until 1959 when, thanks to\u00a0Enrico Mattei<\/strong>, the first important deposits came to light.<\/p>\n

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The kitten\u2019s parable<\/em><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][divider line_type=”No Line” custom_height=”80″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” top_padding=”30″ text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column_text]It is to this exceptional and courageous entrepreneur, whose figure Eni continues to exploit to boast an ethic that does not belong to it,\u00a0Francesco Rosi<\/strong>\u00a0dedicated a remarkable film in 1972 (never released on DVD), drawing it from the book\u00a0The Assassination of Enrico Mattei<\/em>\u00a0by\u00a0Fulvio Bellini<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Alessandro Previdi<\/strong>\u00a0(also co-writers of the film) and entrusting the role of manager to\u00a0Gian Maria Volont\u00e9<\/strong>:\u00a0The Mattei Affair<\/em>\u00a0(Il caso Mattei<\/em>),
\nan investigative film that should be seen by everyone, screened in schools and recognized as an essential testimony of an event that has profoundly changed the fate of our country.<\/p>\n

Starting from the end, or rather from the death of Mattei, which took place in a plane \u201caccident\u201d in 1962, Rosi stages a narrative of the facts carried out with documentary rigor but compelling, original and objective at the same time. Using different narrative registers and never leaning into hasty conclusions, the Neapolitan director gets involved artistically and humanly, creating, with the help of the usual great Volont\u00e9, a masterful mosaic of political inquiry.<\/p>\n

Dwelling for a moment on Volont\u00e9, just think that in the same year he also shot Elio Petri\u2019s\u00a0The Working Class Goes to Heaven<\/em>\u00a0(La classe operaia va in paradiso<\/em>)\u2026<\/p>\n

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The Movie Poster<\/em><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][divider line_type=”No Line” custom_height=”80″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” top_padding=”30″ text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column_text]\n

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I don\u2019t want to be rich in a poor country<\/h2>\n

“<\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” top_padding=”30″ text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column_text]In 1945 Enrico Mattei was appointed extraordinary commissioner for the liquidation of the Azienda Generale Italiana Petroli (AGIP). Soon the manager from the Marche contravened the orders, bypassing the Board of Directors recently appointed by AGIP and ordering new drilling in the Lodi area, convinced about the potential of the company he had been called to liquidate.<\/p>\n

Mattei deems it necessary to keep in Italian hands the possibility of benefiting from any fruitful developments in the hydrocarbon sector, sparking controversy and disagreements between those who are ready to support it and those who fear above all a reaction from the Allies.<\/p>\n

Mattei\u2019s suspicions about the insistence on the liquidation of AGIP are confirmed by the generous offer, of 250 million, from the United States for the acquisition of the company\u2019s facilities, as well as by the sudden increase in foreign technicians in the Lodi area and by the simultaneous release of permits for exploration and research.<\/p>\n

Strongly supported by geologists, Mattei convinces the Minister of Industry Giovanni Gronchi and the Minister of the Treasury Marcello Soleri with his reports: he is finally appointed vice president with the task of continuing the mining exploration.<\/p>\n

Later Mattei founded Eni, building gas pipelines for the exploitation of methane, obtaining oil concessions in the Middle East and an important trade agreement with the Soviet Union.<\/p>\n

His activity breaks the oligopoly of world oil companies (which he himself called \u201cthe seven sisters<\/em>\u201c), placing Italy in a period of national autonomy as well as making it competitive in the world, outside the logic of exploitation of the\u00a0economic cartel<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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The interview (from the movie \u201cThe Mattei Affair\u201d)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Over the years, also engaging through media and politics (he founded the newspaper\u00a0Il Giorno<\/em>) and opening up to African and Middle Eastern countries with an equal approach far from colonialist logic, Mattei increases its power and aims at a political and economic detachment from orbit of the Allies.<\/p>\n

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L’intervista (dal film “Il caso Mattei”)<\/em><\/p>\n

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Gagliano\u2019s speech and death<\/h2>\n[\/vc_column_text][divider line_type=”No Line”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” top_padding=”30″ text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column_text]On 27 October 1962 Enrico Mattei was in Gagliano Castelferrato, in the province of Enna. The area is promising in terms of gas and oil fields, but the local politics of the period is in the pay of the Americans and tries to block their way.<\/p>\n

Mattei addresses the locals, the misery and hopes of the locals; his are important words, for future memory (if memory has a future). Those who took his place at Eni went in the opposite direction to his: drills roam wildly in Val di Noto and in our seas, but to supply NATO\u2019s arsenals.<\/p>\n

A few hours later, Enrico Mattei, together with the pilot and an American journalist who should have interviewed him, dies on board a small private plane that crashes while returning to Milan from Catania.<\/p>\n

Enrico Mattei\u2019s is not a story of a distant past, no longer of interest: it is the story of our wretched country, transformed into a land of conquest for other nations, it is the story of a murdered man, taken out of the way and replaced by others to pursue specific objectives. Objectives to date, sixty years after his sacrifice, more and more evident.<\/p>\n

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The arrogance of the powerful<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Mattei in one of his frequent inspections at the plants<\/em><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][divider line_type=”No Line” custom_height=”50″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” centered_text=”true” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][divider line_type=”No Line” custom_height_phone=”0″ custom_height=”100″][vc_column_text]\n

FRANCESCO ROSI TALKS ABOUT HIS FILM<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][divider line_type=”No Line” custom_height=”30″][vc_video link=”https:\/\/youtu.be\/5jz6hMOySCg”][divider line_type=”No Line”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” top_padding=”30″ text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column_text]\n

\u201cThe Mattei Affair\u201d (Italia 1972) by Francesco Rosi<\/h2>\n[\/vc_column_text][divider line_type=”No Line”][vc_column_text]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Director<\/th>\nFrancesco Rosi<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Script<\/th>\nTito Di Stefano, Tonino Guerra, Nerio Minuzzo, Francesco Rosi, Fulvio Bellini, Alessandro Previdi<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Production<\/th>\nVIDESFranco Cristaldi
\nFernando Ghia<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Starring<\/th>\nGian Maria Volont\u00e9: Enrico Mattei
\nLuigi Squarzina: the journalist
\nGianfranco Ombuen: ingeneer Ferrari
\nEdda Ferronao: mrs Mattei
\nAccursio Di Leo: sicilian politician
\nFurio Colombo: Mattei\u2019s assistent
\nPeter Baldwin: Mc Hale
\nAldo Barberito: Mauro De Mauro<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cinematography<\/th>\nPasqualino De Santis<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Editing<\/th>\nRuggero Mastroianni<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Music<\/th>\nPiero Piccioni<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Distribution<\/th>\nCIC<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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January 26th 1972<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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TRIVIA:<\/p>\n

In the last days of July 1970 Rosi contacted the journalist of the Palermo newspaper\u00a0L\u2019Ora<\/em>\u00a0Mauro De Mauro<\/strong>\u00a0to reconstruct the last hours of Mattei\u2019s life in Gagliano. De Mauro went to Gagliano where thanks to Mr. Puleo, manager of the local cinema, he managed to get the tape with the last speech made by Mattei; He also had talks with Graziano Verzotto, politician and administrator of the Sicilian Mining Authority (indicated by many as very close to the Giuseppe Di Cristina clan) and with Vito Guarrasi, a very ambiguous character close to both Amintore Fanfani and the US Secret Services. On September 16, 1970, De Mauro was seized from his home in Palermo and was never found again.<\/p>\n

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