The Organizer (1963)

Bernard Blier: Martinetti

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• Professor Sinigaglia : Friends, it's not true. We haven't lost. This is only the darkest hour. The side holding out just one hour longer wins! The bosses are even worse off!

  Martinetti : How do you know?

  Professor Sinigaglia : I know! You must believe me! Your stomachs will remain empty and your children's too, if you give up this fight now! The bosses will always win and your misery will continue to enrich them!

  Factory Worker : It's not our factory!

  Professor Sinigaglia : Not yours? Who works there 14 hours a day their whole life? Whose sweat keeps the machines going? You! Then take it! The factory is yours! Show them it means more to you than your own homes! Make the bosses, the city, the government see that it's your life and death! Go! Go! Go, my friends! Go!

• Martinetti : We'll form a committee, decide who'll speak to them.

  Pautasso : Good! I'll be the leader.

  Martinetti : No, we're all equal. You, him...

  Cesarina : And me!

  Pautasso : Women? Look, this is serious.

  Adele : Oh, so we can work, contribute to collections, but we have no rights?

• Martinetti : We speak on behalf of everyone. It's about yesterday's accident. Fourteen hours a day is too much.

  Baudet : Your really lucky, you know? If you told that to the boss - you'd all be finished. Everyone works those hours in Turin.

  Martinetti : And all the tragedies?

  Baudet : My son, tragedies are tragedies. They happen. You just have to be more careful.

• Omero : Are you signing?

  Raoul : What for?

  Omero : Tonight we leave early.

  Raoul : Did the manager agree?

  Factory Worker : Yeah, and pigs fly too.

  Martinetti : No, so we're taking matters into our own hands. We're demonstrating like the British.

• Professor Sinigaglia : Excuse me. What town is this?

  Pautasso : A shitty town.

  Martinetti : What an answer! It's Porta Susa, Turin.

• Manager : Come in! Come in! Don't be shy. Sorry for the short delay. I was a little busy. So, these are the agitators. You don't have bombs in your pockets, do you?

  [laughs] 

  Baudet : Let's introduce this distinguished delegation. This is Marinetti and the others are Porro, Camerone, and...

  Manager : No, no, no, No need to introduce her! This is the lovely Cesarina! Remember when you first came to the factory in '71? I'd have liked to give you a good pinch.

  [laughs] 

  Cenerone : We saw to that ourselves, sir.

  Manager : And you. Aren't you the one who likes the bottle? Eh? Now I see why they call you "The Reds." I like that kind of red too.

  [laughs] 

  Martinetti : We're not Reds, sir.