The volume accompanies the exhibition organised by Istituto Luce Cinecittà at the Museo di Roma in Trastevere from 13 May to 16 October 2022. The title, borrowed from Interesting Times. A Twentieth Century Life, the autobiography of the historian Eric J. Hobsbawm, serves an account in pictures of fifteen years of Italian life, from the 1960s to the early 1970s, just before they became the “years of lead”: a cross-section of Italian society drawn from the Luce archive, between work, leisure, politics and custom.