Il caso Braibanti

An Italian television drama reconstructing the real-life trial of Aldo Braibanti, a poet and intellectual who was prosecuted in the late 1960s under a Fascist-era law against plagio — the supposed psychological subjugation of another person. The case, which many viewed as a thinly veiled persecution of a gay man, attracted protests from prominent cultural figures and sparked fierce debate about civil liberties and state repression in Italy. The film examines both the courtroom proceedings and the broader social and political climate that made such a prosecution possible.