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Felice Marino

Partisan and miller

Felice Marino, born in 1923, was a partisan in the Second Langhe Division under the command of Piero Balbo, nom de guerre “Poli”, during World War II. Since 1956 he has worked as a miller in the small town of Cossano Belbo, where the third generation of the family still produces organic flours ground with Langa stone.   

Video table of contents

  1. childhood
  2. my family
  3. The work in the vineyards
  4. Maggiorino, my father
  5. Carmelina, my mother
  6. My brothers
  7. A family of traders
  8. Mussolini's Empire
  9. The advent of Fascism
  10. What I thought of Fascism
  11. I leave for the military service
  12. July 24, 1943
  13. September 8, 1943
  14. My experience in the Resistance
  15. The early launches and Valdivilla
  16. Beppe Fenoglio
  17. Beppe Fenoglio
  18. Cesare Pavese
  19. Piero "Pierre" Ghiacci
  20. The “toughism”
  21. The economy of the 50s
  22. My first car
  23. My marriage
  24. I buy the mill in Cossano
  25. On July 2, 1956, I open the mill
  26. The first customer
  27. The first flour
  28. My kids
  29. The work at the mill
  30. The stone-grounded flour
  31. In 1975: the mill renewal

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Geographic information

Country: IT

Region: Piemonte

City: Cossano Belbo

District: CN

Altitude: 244m s.l.m.

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Filmography:
 Una questione privata (vita di Beppe Fenoglio) - di Guido Chiesa - 1996 - Produzione: RAI

Document by: Andrea Icardi
Video by: Andrea Icardi
Created: 01-02-2011

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