They’re very young, a little more than kids. Brave, athletics, adventurous, some of them convinced to even have super powers. It’s 1942 and they are the Gordon Gang, in honour of Flash Gordon, the comic book hero censored by Mussolini. They exercise and train in an arduous valley in the Appenini, to be ready to fight, when the time will come. Piero, shy, raised to worship Gabriele D’Annunzio, his uncle and idol of the family, will create the most daring plan for the gang: they would fly, following the instructions they found in an antique manuscript, to kidnap the Duce before the Germans arrive. Dream ore reality? The plan is truly about to happen, but then fails when Piero’s best friend betrays the gang spraying a nazi gas that erases the memory. That’s why Piero also forgets about his night of love with Marzia, young Marxist tennis player who, together with her twin sister had thrown the gang into confusion. Then, seventy years after these facts, a letter is received…
The Gordon Gang recounts the Resistance through the innocent, though intransigent, eyes of adolescence: rebellion is a moral choice, but also a game, a challenge, a comic book adventure, a rite of passage to undergo to discover who you are.
Marco Dell’Omo (L’Aquila, 1958) has worked many years as political journalist for the Ansa. He wrote for the italian television the docu-movies Buonasera Presidente, Oriana Fallaci, il lato oscuro della luna e Storia di Nilde.
Marco Dell'Omo presenta
"La Banda Gordon"
Marco Dell'Omo
Video presentazione
Tuttolibri
Sergio Pent
Quei partigiani che rapirono Mussolini per vendicare l’intrepido Flash Gordon
ANSA
Elisabetta Stefanelli
La resistenza nel nome di Gordon Flash
Globalist
Marco Spagnoli
Le vette della libertà
Il Centro
Roberto Ciuffini
Piccoli bucanieri nell’avventura della Resistenza
La Stampa
Sergio Pent
Quei partigiani che rapirono Mussolini per vendicare l’intrepido Flash Gordo
Mangialibri
Giuseppe Cirillo
La banda Gordon
Cronaca qui
A Mon.
La banda con il nome di Flash Gordon tra montagne, guerra e il primo amore
Exlibris
Domenica Blanda (alias Anna Cavestri)
La banda Gordon
Alto Adige
Carlo Martinelli
L’ex pizzaiolo scrive a muso duro che gli operai esistono ancora
Come un romanzo
Lorenzo Barberis
La resistenza dei fumetti Usa: ”La banda Gordon” di Dell’Omo
Leggo quando voglio
La banda Gordon
Casa Lettori
Maria Anna Patti
La banda Gordon
Convenzionali
Gabriele Ottaviani
La banda Gordon
Satisfiction
Claudio Della Pietà
Marco Dell’Omo. La banda Gordon
il Fatto Quotidiano
Segnalazioni
La Provincia
Elisabetta Stefanelli
Dell’Omo La Resistenza nel nome di Gordon Flash
