For a Handful of Books

Season 22 Episode 10: Group Photo with Lady (by Heinrich Böll)

The tenth episode of "Per Un Pugno di libri" sees the "Manfredo Fanti" Scientific High School of Carpi (Mo) and the "Niccolò Copernico" Scientific High School of Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto (ME) compete on the novel by the German writer Heinrich Böll "Group Photo with Lady". Published in 1971, most critics consider it Böll's best book, the "summa of his narrative work". A wide-ranging novel in which the writer recounts half a century of German history: from the Weimar Republic to 1968. But, as in the past, also in this novel Heinrich Böll focuses on his "obsession": the war, the Second World War and its devastating effects on people's lives. The prize, as always, is not money, but works of genius (i.e. many books) and the possibility of accessing the final between the two classes that ranked best during the program.

Genre:

Talk

Seasons:

23

Episodes:

453

Actor:

Piero D'Orfles , Geppi Cucciari

Quality:

HD

Status:

Ended

First Air:

1998

IMDb:

9.0