This paper aims at analyzing Gertrud Pinkus’s docu-fiction Il valore della donna è il suo silenzio (1980), a Swiss and German coproduction, its genesis, and its circulation amongst Italian migrant women in Switzerland. Pinkus’s film is one of the few works of the twentieth century that deals with Italian emigration from a gendered perspective. It tells the story of a woman who emigrates from the South of Italy to the city of Frankfurt. The analysis of the film focuses on the family life of the female protagonist and her motherhood; the analysis of its circulation builds on the political aspect of its reception. The author supports this analysis with a methodology taken from so-called new film history, with an historical contextualization and reference to gender studies.
4. Emigrazione, maternità ed emancipazione ne Il valore della donna è il suo silenzio
