The word violence isn’t just a deed , but is a threshold that breaks time dividing it in before and after. What was yesterday won’t be the same tomorrow. The moment in which Ida can’t even speak, emerges what often stays hidden: the power that dominates the body, the silence which crashes The voice, the shame that becomes a prison. In war, these violences happen with no witnesses, in hidden corners.
It’s difficult to understand if it’s the descent to hell that turn men into devils or if it’s the devil, already dwelling in some men’s hearts, that leads them to go down even faster to hell, like Italians in Sarajevo, in a journey to kill as man hunters.
The king and the generals’ escape surrenders centre North to Nazis, their allies care about occupying South, the parties resistance starts formally that ninth of September 1943 with the CNL creation.
International filmography exalted the epic of many World War II battles, although the disembark of Salerno, for reasons yet to be investigated, remains a pretty much ignored event, even though in 1945 the Americans already celebrated it with a milestone movie. Only recently a revolutionary movie on Netflix, Liberator, started with Operation Avalanche.
The advance proceeds slowly towards the north and the Nazi repression, together with RSI Black Brigades, gets more and more brutal.
From “La Storia” by Elsa Morante
The advance proceeds slowly towards the north and the Nazi repression, together with RSI Black Brigades, gets more and more brutal.
Mosca was walking Together with her partner Tarzan, charged with recovering a radio, when, catching an uncertain glimpse in the shadows of a pathway, he quickly intimated “Halt!” with a military look on his face. In response, from behind the houses came some voices quarrelling in german, it was then that Tarzan shot; but then, in the window of time between one shot and the other he swiftly ran away, while Mosca was surrounded and captured. He was found with a message,he actually couldn’t reveal its meaning, since he himself was clueless about it (it said: the washed linen is in the bucket). He knew though, obviously, many more things that his torturers wanted to have him to say. But as evidenced by proof, those German guys, despite their effort, couldn’t but make him weep loudly as a child; until they eventually gave up, ending him with a shot in the back. His dream would have been, at that point, to yell <All hail Stalin!> but his breath was enough to let out a great bellow, not louder than a sparrow. Less than a month earlier, more precisely at Christmas Day, he had turned sixty. He was born in the same year as Benito Mussolini:1883.
Drag the scrollbar down to see the timeline of Nazi-Fascist massacres following the advance of the battlefront. by Prof. Giovanni Pietro Vitali
As early as World War II and in the immediate postwar period, particularly between 1943 and 1955, Neorealism emerged in Italy. It profoundly influenced contemporary cinema—both Italian and international—and remains a key point of reference for global filmmaking to this day.
from the movie” Le quattro giornate di Napoli”
Nanni Loi, 1962
Roberto Rossellini, 1945
The manifesto of Italian Neorealism: the murder scene of Pina (Anna Magnani)
Aldo Vergano, 1946
On September 8th, Italian soldiers found themselves at the mercy of the German occupying forces.
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