The Minister of Culture of Italy Dario Franceni on April 5 announced the abolition of the state censorship of cinema. This is reported on the website of the Italian Ministry of Culture.
“The control and intervention system that allowed the state to invade the freedom of artists, finally canceled,” said Franni.
Now the power of Italy can only limit the display of paintings by children under 6, 14 or 18 years. Approval of the age category of films will be engaged in a special commission under the Ministry of Culture.
censorship of cinema operated in Italy since 1914. The authorities had the right to cut the scenes from films or prohibit paintings to the rental due to scenes of sex and violence, as well as on religious and political considerations. The most active censorship began to be applied after World War II. Among the most famous films prohibited to show the Italian censorsion were the “Last Tango in Paris” Bernardo Bertolucci in 1972 (the court decided to destroy all copies of the picture, except for the three, which were supposed to be kept in the Kinoarhiva as a “Certificate of Crime”) and “Salo, or 120 days of Sodom “Pierre Paolo Pasolini in 1975. Both paintings seized from rental due to erotic scenes. “Salo” was again allowed to show in 1978, “Last Tango in Paris” – in 1987.