Romanzo di una strage

Every country has recent traumas that resist accountability. For the U.S., it’s Vietnam and Watergate; in Italy it’s the “Years of Lead” of the late 1960s and ’70s, when left and right extremists perpetrated high-profile attacks. In “Romanzo di una strage,” Marco Tullio Giordana (“The Best of Youth”) dissects one such event, the Piazza Fontana bombing, to highlight the cynical manipulations and tragic consequences of the deed and subsequent investigations.