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Recordiad sain / Audio recording: Mario Cicigoi
Oral history recording with Mario Cicigoi. Part 5 of 5 (AV 11379, AV 11380, AV 11381, AV 11382, AV 11383). Recorded as part of the Italian Memories in Wales project (2008-10), delivered by ACLI-ENAIP and funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.
00.01 The interviewer asks Mario to describe his photographs, and he shows her one in particular which shows Mario taking part in the film Addio alle Armi. Mario then shows a picture of Tito and explains that he keeps that photograph as this man managed to unite the whole of Jugoslavia and to free his town from occupation and so he feels a strong admiration for him.
15.21 The interviewer asks Mario if he has ever thought of returning to live in Italy, and he repiles that he is no longer an emigrant; that now Wales is his country and he would never be able to leave behind the life he is used to here, but above all, his family.