Rossi, an anarchist writer, was instigated by the Brazilian musician Carlos Gomes to seek audience with Pedro II for the purpose of establishing a libertarian community capable of propelling a "new time".

But this donation, in fact, did not happen: shortly after their supply by the emperor, the Brazilian Republic was established, which did not recognize land concessions granted to foreigners by the deposed Empire.

The crops and livestock did not produce enough for the subsistence of settlers, a large part of whom were industrial workers without agricultural knowledge to implement a larger scale production.

[3] In concluding the construction of collective and individual dwellings and rationally divided work among the 150 colonists, they encountered a real fact: maize, which was ideal for that region, is not born from day to night.

The settlers planted more than eighty alqueires of land - in the area provided to them by Emperor Pedro II, shortly before the proclamation of the Republic - and built more than ten kilometers of road, at a time in which there were no machines, tractors or transport cranes.

Many settlers, which included doctors, engineers, teachers, intellectuals and workers, as well as peasants, then started to migrate to Curitiba, where they founded the Giuseppe Garibaldi Society.

Cecília Colony, from the end of 1893, gave signs of exhaustion: there was great demand for labor in neighboring cities, especially Palmeira, Porto Amazonas, Ponta Grossa, beyond the capital.

The Rede Bandeirantes first exhibited in 1989 the miniseries Colônia Cecilia, written by Patrícia Melo and Carlos Nascimbeni, in which the drama was carried out by Giovanni Rossi, played by Paulo Betti.

The film was inserted into the 1970 political cinema files, the result of the student movements of 1968, along with other contemporary European productions, especially from Italian filmmakers such as Francesco Rosi, Elio Petri and the Taviani Brothers.

Filmed in unidentified place, probably in Italy, in Italian and Portuguese, has the actors Massimo Foschi (Giovanni Rossi), Maria Carta (Olympia), Vittorio Mezzogiorno (Luigi) and Mario Bussolino (Ernesto Lorenzini).

The original music is from the musician Michel Portal, but also includes, in the opening, the anarchist song Amore Ribelle by Pietro Gori, sung by Maria Caria.