Italy Abolishes Film Censorship, Ending Government Power to Ban Movies
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Italy has officially abolished film censorship by scrapping legislation that since 1913 has allowed the government to censor scenes and ban movies such as, most famously, Pier Paolo Pasolini’s “Salò or the 120 Days of Sodom” and Bernardo Bertolucci’s “Last Tango in Paris.”
The move which is symbolically important, though censorship is de-facto no longer practiced definitively does away with “the system of controls and interventions that still allowed the Italian state to intervene on the freedom of artists,” said Culture Minister Dario Franceschini who late Monday announced a new decree ending the government’s powers to censor cinema.
Italy Abolishes Film Censorship, Ending Government Power to Ban Movies
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