Il film “Mio figlio professore” (1946): una frontiera nella memoria scolastica degli italiani

[Autom. eng. transl.] Released in 1946 and directed by Renato Castellani and set between 1919-1920 and the first months of the Second World War, the film "My Son the Professor" tells the story of Orazio Belli, the janitor of a Roman high school who manages to steer his son towards a career as a Latin teacher and get him a chair in the institute where the janitor works. The film, examined here as a source for the study of school memory according to the heuristic approach of visual history, provides a snapshot of a decisive passage in our national history, telling it from the point of view of the school, which is represented as a microcosm substantially impermeable to the passage of time.