Between the end of World War II and the economic boom, cinema in Italy was at the center of numerous negotiating practices, ranging from the protection of morality to the maintenance of public order; from the need to financially support a struggling industry to the development of new international relations; from the influence of the Vatican to the creation of fragile political alliances. The essay reconstructs how film censorship positioned itself at the crossroads of all these concerns. Through the study of the censorship archive files and parliamentary records, the book offers a reading that seeks to overcome from the traditional interpretation of censorship as a merely repressive tool, proposing instead a model of culture of negotiation that was able to guide the country through one of the most difficult periods in its history.