Darko Bratina

Darko Bratina (30 March 1942 – 23 September 1997) was an Italian sociologist, film theorist and politician of Slovene ethnicity.

He attended Slovene language elementary and middle high school in Gorizia, before enrolling in the University of Trieste, where he studied civil engineering.

During his stay in Turin, he became influenced by the thought of the Christian left intellectual Felice Balbo who sought to combine Marxist activism and the Catholic doctrines of faith.

He organized several regional film festivals throughout northern Italy (especially in Veneto, Trentino, and his native Friuli-Venezia Giulia).

[2] Bratina first entered politics in 1984, when he ran for the European Parliament as an independent candidate within the list of Italian Communist Party (PCI) with the support of the Slovene Union.