Il Cuore nel Pozzo
| Il Cuore nel Pozzo | |
|---|---|
| Written by | Massimo De Rita George Eastman Salvatore Marcarelli Alberto Negrin |
| Directed by | Alberto Negrin |
| Starring |
Beppe Fiorello, Leo Gullotta, Antonia Liskova, Dragan Bjelogrlić, Jovana Milovanovic |
| Theme music composer | Ennio Morricone |
| Country of origin | Italy |
| Original language(s) | Italian |
| Production | |
| Producer(s) | RAI |
| Cinematography | Enrico Lucidi |
| Editor(s) | Antonio Siciliano |
| Distributor | RAI |
| Release | |
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| Website | www |
Il Cuore nel Pozzo (Italian for The heart in the pit; often reported in Croatian media with the translation Srce u jami and in Slovene Srce v breznu) is a TV movie, produced by state broadcaster RAI, that focuses on the escape of a group of children from Tito's partisans in the aftermath of World War II, as they start an ethnic cleansing of all Italians from Istria and the Julian March. The word "pit" in the movie's title refers to a foiba, indicating foibe massacres.
The movie was watched by 17 million people on its first broadcast in Italy. It was the first time that a major TV event was broadcast in Italy about the dramas of Foibe and Istrian Exodus.
April 1945. The German army is losing the war and Tito's Yugoslav partisans are rapidly gaining ground.
Giulia is a woman who earns a living by singing in a tavern in an unnamed village in what appears to be an ethnically Italian area of Istria. She had a child named Carlo six years earlier by a Slav named Novak, who has now become a partisan leader. It appears that Novak had raped Giulia, but Novak will later claim Giulia reported him to the police to get rid of him. The Italian police would rather believe an Italian woman than a Slavic man. The movie does not give a clear answer as to whose version of the story is true. Novak comes back to Giulia to claim his child, but she refuses to give him up. She attracts the attention of German soldiers and Novak must flee.
Francesco is an 8-year old child, only son of physician Giorgio Bottini and music schoolteacher Marta. He lives with his parents in the same village as Giulia and Carlo. He meets Ettore, an Alpino who is tired of war and drops his rifle in disgust when Francesco mentions that he likes heroes of war. Ettore has come back to see his girlfriend Anja again, who is Slavic and works at Don Bruno's orphanage.
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