Vittorio Taviana : "In 1968, the revolutionary upsurge was both inside us and outside us. At the moment, we have a greater need for quiet and reflexion. Thus ALLONSANFAN... As always in our films, it's a historical event which is our starting point and the occasion to catalyse certain questions about today. In the film, the reference to 1816 is precise : we made a thorough study of this period in order to forget it afterwards, thus getting freer - the exact reconstruction of events doesn't interest us. We speak of the past in order to speak of the present, as always with history and art. During a slump, at the ebb of the tide, there are many ways to react and one of them is to throw yourself into utopia. That's the second soul of ALLONSANFAN. Paolo Taviani : "The film develops the expression of an ebbing, of a confrontation of ideas. ALLONFANSAN is treason and the splendour of regression." Vittorio Taviani : "We show that contradictions exist, but we do not offer any solutions. Anyway, in the cinema, the best way to say something is sometimes to hide it." Extracts from "La Revue du Cinéma" 287, sept 1974.