SPECIAL SCREENING FUSSBALL: A Guardia di una Fede

• IT 2024
• 102 min
• Director: Andrea Zambelli
• FSK: from 16 years
• Documentary: Original version with German voiceover and subtitles where applicable

"A guardia di una fede" portrays Claudio "Bocia" Galimberti's life as a relentless fighter for his cause, his ideals, his club and his city, whose devotion has taken away the most important thing, his freedom.

In the world of the Ultras, the Atalanta Bergamo fan curve has a special status. As a pioneer of mentality and consistency, it still has something mythical about it today. Those who grew up in Bergamo and the surrounding area sooner or later come together in the "Curva Nord" to become "guardians of a faith".

Director Andrea Zambelli and his main protagonist Claudio "Bocia" Galimberti, who is now a helmsman on a fishing boat in the Adriatic, also followed this path. "Bocia" has been a member of the Bergamo Ultras all his life, part of the hard core - one of the most respected and feared groups in Italy and Europe. His absolute dedication to the city and the club made him the undisputed leader of the Curva Nord since 2000.
"A guardia di una fede" traces the last two decades of Claudio Galimberti's life, a period in which Italian society has undergone rapid and far-reaching developments: The violent clashes with the police in the 1990s, the transformation of the Curve into the glue of the city and its inhabitants, and the maelstrom of repression that led to numerous trials and Bocia's exile. Zambelli also describes the process by which soccer went from a 'sport for all' to a global business, until the stands were finally left empty by the Covid pandemic.