INTERNATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE RED CROSS

Year:
1993
Lenght: 32 min
Copyright: Croce Rossa Italiana

Direction, screenplay, cinematography and editing: Alberto Cima.
Assistant director: Paola Ratti

Live sounds

Financed: Museo Croce Rossa
Subject:

The old curator illustrates the itinerary of the museum in Castiglione delle Stiviere (Mantova).
Amongst the grand buildings decorating the charming town of Castiglione delle Stiviere, there is a palace which recalls one of the most significant pages in the history of human solidarity and international human rights. It is the elghteenth-century palace Triulzi-Longhi, in which, in 1859 the International Museum of the Red Cross has been installed, to witness that one hundred years earlier, in Castiglione the idea of what today is the most important humanitarian organization in the worl found its origins thanks to the bright sensibility of a young businessman from Geneva, Henry Dunant.