When the Italian government of Prime Minister Romano Prodi was defeated in February 2007 in the upper chamber on a vote officially concerned with the renewal of the budget for the Italian mission in Afghanistan, it became clear that the real reason for this debacle was a missing vote of honorary Senator Giulio Andreotti. That is one of the most influential and closest ally to the Vatican in Parliament. He would then confess on the following day that he could not sustain a government that tries to pass a law for gay and lesbian couples. I ( Gustav) was sitting on a ski lift when I heard about that news and that very moment I decided that something had to be done and that the best way about it would be to make a film. It was very clear from the beginning that the story had to be told from a private point of you. So I convinced my boyfriend Luca to start making a film about us and about how we are affected by what was going on. So we started to leave our protected private world, armed with our little hdv camera, following the debate in the Senate, week by week and hopping from one demonstration for or against a law for civil unions to the other. The film does only exist because a few people believed in it from the beginning giving us their professional support. With our editor Desideria Rayner (editor of the successful documentary “L’'Orchestra di Piazza Vittorio”) we started to watch the 30 hours of footage and with her we started to build the story. Silvia Moraes, sound editor of films like “Life is Beautiful”, “Le Consequenze dell’'amore”, “Romanzo Criminale” saw the film and she decided to help us in the sound editing. Maria Teresa Tringali helped us from a production point of view and actress Jacqueline Lustig helped us out financially. It’'s also thanks to these great girls that this film exists.
