Accidental Death of an Anarchist (1985 – Dario Fo, Gavin Richards, Ch.4)

Title: The Accidental Death of an Anarchist Year: 1985 Runtime: 1 hr 14 mins. Director: Alan Horrox, Gavin Richards Writer: Dario Fo (play), Gavin Richards (adaptation) Actors: Gavin Richards, Jim Bywater, Clive Russell, Gavin Muir, Susan Denaker Plot: The action begins, we are told, shortly after an actual series of co-ordinated bomb outrages in Milan and Rome on 12 December 1969, explosions that killed 16 and injured over 120 random victims in what became known as the Strategy of Tension. The subsequent police investigation into the ‘bombings’ (the latest in an ongoing series of alleged ‘anarchist-leftist’ attacks which began the previous year) was led by Chief Inspector Luigi Calabresi and his boss Chief Superintendent Antonio Allegra of Milan’s Special Branch (Questura). On the night of the explosion — and the following day — over 100 anarchists were arrested, 27 of whom were taken to San Vittorio prison, the rest being held for interrogation in Milan police headquarters in the Via