Il lato umano dell’impresa. Storia della Telettra e di Virgilio Floriani

Virgilio Floriani came from a farming family of Northern Italy and studied as an engineer. In 1946, he founded Telettra, a small telecommunication company that in a few decades became an international frontrunner. Aiming to ensure a solid future to his company in Italy, in 1976 Floriani, now in his seventies, sold Telettra to Fiat. However, in 1990, right when it had achieved the primacy in HD satellite signal transmission with RAI, Telettra was sold to a French corporation. At the dawn of the telecommunications industry boom, Telettra died.

Floriani was my grandfather. Through public and family archival material, this film wishes to explore the story of a legacy that belongs both to my personal universe and Italian history.