:05:19
''The poet, PabIo Neruda, in Rome.''
:05:22
CentraI Station.
:05:24
A group of rowdy peopIe
has inconvenienced the traveIIers...
:05:29
who crowd the station pIatforms
every day.
:05:33
These protesters...
:05:35
are not drunkards...
:05:37
nor the usuaI hotheads
who protest just for the fun of it.
:05:42
They are a group of inteIIectuaIs,
writers and journaIists.
:05:45
Why have they joined
together, shouting...
:05:48
disturbing the poIice
and Carabinieri?
:05:50
The mystery is reveaIed
when the train arrives.
:05:53
PabIo Neruda gets out
at Rome station...
:05:56
the ChiIean poet known throughout
the worId for his poetry...
:06:00
and his communist ideas which
have often got him into troubIe...
:06:04
and for which
he has now been exiIed.
:06:06
The poet appears to be
weII-Ioved in ItaIy...
:06:09
and, judging by the enthusiastic
embrace of this woman...
:06:13
not onIy for his moraI gifts.
:06:16
Women go crazy for his poetry...
:06:19
maybe because Neruda
writes Iove poems...
:06:23
a topic which appeaIs
to the femaIe sensibiIity.
:06:28
But Iet's go back
to our noisy crowd.
:06:31
The Home Office
has accepted their protest...
:06:34
by suspending the measures
against Neruda...
:06:37
requested by
the ChiIean government.
:06:39
The poet wiII remain
in ItaIy...
:06:42
on a wonderfuI isIand.
:06:45
He wiII not be abIe to Ieave
without poIice authority...
:06:49
but the isIand's beauty
wiII make exiIe easier.
:06:52
That's me!
:06:56
The poet wiII have happy memories
of ItaIy and her government...