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Italia Prize 1958: The Isle of Favigna

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First Prize Television Documentary

The first full story of the 'mattanza' - the yearly life-and-death struggle between the island fishermen and the shoals of huge tunny-fish on which their survival depends.
A recording of an outside broadcast.

Commentary spoken by Dino Galvani.
(Previously televised in Britain on December 31)

Contributors

Produced for Radiotelevisione Italiana by:
Carlo Alberto Chiesa
Narrator:
Dino Galvani
English version:
Maurice Harvey

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