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Genre Documentary
Director M.Garlatti-Costa
ScreenwritersAA.VV.
Produzione Quasar Multimedia
Sito web quasarmultimedia.it

Following the end of World War II, the Italian Government acquired jurisdiction over two borderland territories, inhabited by large linguistic minorities, that were dangerously contended by two different neighboring countries. On one hand there was Trentino – Alto Adige (South Tyrol/ Südtirol), where the German-speaking community claimed their right to self-determination and wanted to be reunited with Austria; on the other, there was the Venezia-Giulia Region (the Julian March), claimed by the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, led by General Tito. In order to face the threat to Italian unity in both regions, Italian Prime Minister Alcide De Gasperi created the UZC, “Ufficio Zone di Confine” (Agency for the Supervision of Borderland Territories), a special agency that operated in both territories. The control of the agency fell in the hands of young Giulio Andreotti, former member of the Constituent Assembly and then Undersecretary of the Council of Ministers of Italy. In 1946 the UZC Agency was born, and it would remain active until 1954. Its main aim was to defend Italian National identity and sovereignty in the territories that were most impacted by nationalistic issues, and, in the case of Trieste – Capital of the Julian March and the entire Friuli-Venezia Julia region – where political and ideological tensions were heaviest.

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