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RAI FICTION

PRODUCTION OF PICOMEDIA

IN COLLABORATION WITH RAI FICTION

TOGETHER WITH TALI IMAGES

ITALY MINISTRY OF CULTURE

ASSOCIATION OF CINEMA AND AUDIOVISUAL ARTS

Settimio! Celeste! Run!

Graziella!

Get out of here!

Tomorrow they will come to kill us!

Leone!

Esther! You hear?

Tomorrow morning!

Sixteenth of October!

I read!

- This is Wilma! - Go home, Wilma!

What are you doing, Wilma? Such a downpour!

- Leave! - Crazy!

Leave! You'll wake up more children!

Esther, I beg you!

Save the children! I saw the lists!

We are all there!

Tomorrow they will come at dawn and kill us all!

Save your children! Save yourself!

Wilma! What are you doing? Calm down!

It's all over, we signed a pact with Germany.

We gave them 50 kg of gold, half a centner!

We are all saved! Everyone gave something!

I gave away my tooth.

Believe me, Celeste.

They are killers.

- Murderers. - Go home, brew some chamomile.

We're all on the list.

LA STORIA Episode 3

JASMINE TRINKA

FRANCESCO ZENGA, MATTIA BASCIANI

LORENZO ZURZOLO

VALERIO MASTANDREA AND OTHERS

WITH CONTRIBUTIONS TO ELIO GERMANO

AFTER ELSA MORANTE'S NOVEL OF THE SAME NAME

Sorry. Are you from these places?

We are from San Lorenzo.

Hi baby!

What a nice boy!

Why are you sad?

He misses the dog.

Yes? Do you miss Blitz?

He stayed at home.

Christians and animals. Death is our lot.

Don't worry, baby.

The dog grew wings and flew to the sky. Like this.

Take it. For the baby.

Take it. Smart boy, smart girl!

Thank you.

Don't you have anything else?

Here. Woven in Anticoli. Brand new.

The baby will have a jumpsuit.

- We can't accept. - No, take it.

What about you yourself?

I'm already old, I'll survive.

Here you go.

- Bye, Baby. - Thank you, signora!

I'm very tired.

Need to sit. Goodbye.

Thank you.

Keep quiet! The enemy will hear you!

We need victory! We will win!

Damn them!

Signora, are you from Rome?

Yes, sir.

I am also a Roman from Mama Roma.

He worked in a quarry in Verano.

I had to work for the Nazis, you know.

And then at work a stove fell on my hand,

I crushed everything!

I am a war invalid.

Your house was damaged, right?

Destroyed.

My condolences. No, my house is in order

but nothing was holding me there.

Well, except for work.

I took everything I needed, and let the thieves steal the rest.

What, my dear?

Signora, please put the baby in my car.

And at least give yourself a little rest.

Right here. Come on baby.

Welcome to Giuseppe's carriage!

Look what's here.

Look who else is here!

Do you see Rossella? Look!

I'm Giuseppe Cucchiarelli, signora.

Hammer and sickle.

Let's go with the wind!

Tell me, is this a shelter for refugees?

Why are you stuck? Go away.

Let's go, let's go. Who will stop here?

Even the Germans are afraid to come here, signora.

- It's completely dark! - Is it completely dark?

- Yes. - It says “dairy shop”.

Maybe we can even get by with a piece of cheese.

Wait. Come to me.

Well, who else is there?

Can I come to you?

We were told that there are still a few places available.

Refugees from San Lorenzo?

Exactly.

Come on in.

- Can I leave my things here? - Yes Yes.

Thank you.

Signora, close the door.

Who is this?

Welcome.

If I can say so in our situation. Domenico. Domenico!

Domenico!

Command.

Get the mattresses and beds over there, under the window.

Are you happy with a place there?

- Here? - Yes.

Hello.

- Hello. - Thank you.

Signora, I'm Ida Ramundo.

Mancuso's widow.

Very nice. I'm Signora Mercedes.

But we will formally meet tomorrow,

because everyone is already asleep now. Well, or almost everything.

Take your pet to bed.

- Good night. - Let's go, Rossella.

If I need you, call me.

Lie down, my dear.

- Move over! - Where to go?

- He lay down all over the bed. - Where!

I'm cold too!

That's it, let me sleep.

Look, what a miracle, signora.

It's easy to go crazy!

Rossella.

I know, I know, you're right.

You're right.

Tomorrow we'll think about food.

I'm hungry too.

Sleep.

Good morning! It's already sunny!

Baby! There's sunshine!

Baby! Baby!

How nice!

Like?

Like?

Useppe...

Are there two of them?

Yes. This is Rusinella, and this is Celestina.

- The same! - I tied ribbons for them,

to differentiate.

Yes, signora. It’s clear who the mother is, but who knows who the father is!

Well, it's twenty-five again!

She became pregnant while we were hiding in the catacombs in Naples,

but from whom is a mystery!

No! I swear, if someone did this,

I have not noticed!

- This is a miracle! - Immaculate Conception.

- What is your name? - Solnyshko!

There's sunshine there, yes! Tell me what your name is!

Useppe.

Useppe! My husband's name is also Giuseppe.

And a grandson and a great-grandson too. See!

By the way, me too, signora.

- Come on! Giuseppe too? - Right. Giuseppe Cucchiarelli.

Then, that means my husband will be Giuseppe the First,

you are Giuseppe II,

and we’ll call this adorable little guy

Useppe, whatever he calls himself.

Useppe! Useppe!

Uze, what’s my name?

- Auli! - No.

- Karulina! - Cowley.

- Ka-ru-li-na. - Kaulina.

How old are you?

Two. Three.

I'm 15 now.

I'm three!

- Three years old? - Three, four, five, six!

Five or six - no.

I already got it. You are big.

- No. - Big boy.

- You can even see the city from here. - Yes Yes.

Just don't rush. Go down carefully. Useppe is here!

Things aren't so bad for me.

Fine. I'm just telling you right away to study.

Let's go, Uze. How is everything organised here?

Are you on shift duty?

Yes, we are on duty.

Excuse me, but if I see a German, what should I do?

You need to turn off the light and say the password.

What's the password?

Really, what password should I say?

Now I'm going to shit myself!

The boys grab their things and run into the

fields, and the girls pretend to be asleep.

Don't worry, signora. That's why we're on duty.

Only without Giuseppe the First. He doesn't see us

but he won’t even be able to see the German at point-blank range!

Well, be silent!

Where's Nino?

Nino! Nino!

Are you there, Nino?

Nino.

Where are you?

Useppe...

Useppe!

Useppe.

Useppe, let's go!

When will Nino come?

Nino is sleeping now.

Happened?

- Yes. - Put it on the ground for now.

Good afternoon, Signora Ida!

Good afternoon to you too.

- Give me the nail. - Just be careful.

Hold it!

- Signora Ida! - Good afternoon, Signora Ida.

- Good afternoon. - How are you?

Not back?

No.

But don't worry.

No news for two and a half months.

I understand, but Nino can handle it.

Let me tell you as soon as he arrives that you are in Pietralata.

Tell me how you are doing.

- We live in a shelter. - Not much.

And the baby?

He's cheerful all the time.

So as not to have to go looking for food.

Since this crap broke out, the Germans have become even more terrible.

Eppetondo!

How how?

Eppetondo!

Eppetondo! Instead of Giuseppe, just Eppe.

Have you heard my name?

Giuseppe II.

No. From this day forward, call me the same way as Useppe calls me -

Eppe Tondo.

"Eppe" from Giuseppe,

"Tondo" - from "secondo", the second.

Are you jealous?

No, no, baby! No! You can't go there at all!

Useppe!

Sorry.

Excuse me, Signora Mercedes, do you have half a glass of butter?

Certainly.

Salvatore! Give me a glass.

Here you go, auntie.

Now…

- Hold it. - Thank you.

Top grade.

Eight liras.

How about eight liras?

And as you wanted, signora! Domenico and Salvatore carried him at the risk of their lives.

Naples is currently under bombing, you know.

We were lucky, but we lost half of our family.

Karulina's parents were killed in the last bombing.

Since I am from Rome, I am Roman,

We came here, but even here there is no way to save us from them.

We are a military target.

Here you go.

Attention everyone! All come here!

Everyone come here! Look what they write in the newspaper!

Per-re-mi-ri-e!

The truce has arrived!

OK. And what does it mean?

That the fighting has stopped.

The Italian government prize...

admitted... admitted... impossible...

admitted the impossibility...

continued wrestlers...

- Fight. - Fight

... against superior... superior... - Superior.

Read, it will be faster.

...against superior enemy forces,

and in order not to plunge the country into even greater losses,

asked General Eisenhower for a truce,

commander of the Anglo-American forces.

How he reads!

So teacher!

The request was granted.

Satisfied!

The war is over! War is over!

The war is over, but we lost.

And what will happen to us now?

Like what? We'll have to learn to speak American!

American? Who speaks it?

The war is over! The war is over! It's over!

It's over!

What's happened? Not finished?

Let's go, Uze.

Let's go to.

...but they will be real...

to react…

for any attacks...

React to any attacks.

What was the password... Domenico! Domenico!

What?

- What is our password? - What?

- What is the password? - What is it, Eppe? Are you going to shit yourself now?

Exactly! Karulina said...

Come on, come on, live it up!

Come on, come on! Lively!

Come on, let's hide it there. Hold tight.

He fainted!

- What? - He fainted!

What's there?

Wake up, someone is at the gate.

Let's. Let's bring it in.

Bring it in. This way, be careful.

On the bed.

What's wrong with him?

Madonna, he's sick!

Bring something! We need to help him!

Hurry up.

Bring something to put under your head!

Put it under his head!

Come on, under your head.

Are we sure it can be allowed in?

And what? What can he do to us?

What is confusing you?

What if they are looking for him?

And if the fascists are looking for him, so much the better.

So he's one of ours. This is a public place.

There are books here.

- OK OK. - What will he do?

Ida, read it.

Carlo Vivaldi,

Bologna, 3 October 1922.

Occupation: student.

Drink!

- Drink! - Run! Bring some water!

Bring him some water!

Come quickly.

We need to raise our heads.

Let's.

Drink, drink.

Mother…

Door…

Door…

Door…

- Useppe! - Nino.

- Let's go, son. - Nino.

The door is open…

Nino has arrived.

Close the door...

Door…

- Hello! - Where did you run?

I bless you! I bless you!

I bless you!

Can i ask you?

How did you get here?

I was in Naples

with relatives.

I haven't slept under a roof for a long time.

There is no need to thank anyone.

This is a public place.

For general shelter. This is not private property.

- Mother! - Useppe, mum will come soon.

Karuli is with you.

He calls his mother all the time, ah-ah-ah!

Your mum will come!

Signora Ida! Let's go to!

- No thanks. - Let's go!

Ida! Ida!

- Useppe! - Let's run!

- Everyone take cover! - Quicker!

Let's! Let's go to!

Quicker!

IDENTIFICATION

Here is a letter from my place of work.

- Hold it. - Thank you.

Next!

- Ida! - Angela!

How are you

How do I... We are in a shelter in Pietralata.

I'm sorry.

I heard that a family is renting a room in Testaccio, near the school.

But where can I get money for this?

Don't know when classes will resume?

No. For now they are silent.

OK. Hope to see you at school soon.

- Bye, Angela. - Bye, Ida.

- Where? - Home.

Signora Ida!

Signora Ida!

Jump in!

No, the party is still needed so that people don’t get carried away.

Man was not created to

follow rules or follow the party.

Let's look at an example...

Come on, be quiet!

What's happened?

This is Domenico.

Mum has arrived!

People! Naples liberated!

The road home is still blocked, but soon

it will be cleared and we can return home!

Released!

Home soon!

Soon soon. Certainly! We're always waiting here.

They say the war is over, but it still goes on.

We need an uprising!

Eppetondo! Come back to earth soon!

You need to drink to this! Necessarily!

Home soon!

Let's! Let's drink to this!

PIETRALATA DAIRY SHOP

Mother! He came!

Who? Who came, Uze? Who's there?

- Nino! - What happened, Uze?

Nino, Nino, forever with your Nino!

Who is this Nino, Uze?

- What's happened? - Nino has arrived.

Well, what Nino? Nino...

Useppe?

- So who's there? - I didn’t understand myself.

Nino...

Mother!

I haven't changed much, Mum?

- Do you recognise me? - Yes.

How much you have grown!

Nino.

I even felt like an adult! Come here.

- Say it again. - Nino.

Who said we're here? Remo?

Yes. Yes.

Good evening to you, comrades!

- This is my son. - Wow! Handsome!

- Senior. - Hello, Signor Nino.

What kind of lord am I to you? We are partisans from Castelli.

This is Quattropunto, I am the Ace of Hearts.

Look what's there!

Give! Let me have a look!

Come here! Go to dad!

Crazy? Take it away!

- I brought it from the war. I took it from a German. - From a German!

Although there are no more Germans, Spaniards, or Jews.

- There is only unploughed land. - Well done!

Our partisans!

Even these shoes are from the Fritz!

You know, I would like to become a comrade!

Long live the proletarian revolution!

The only newspaper in Italy!

Nino, this is Eppetondo.

He is my friend.

I'm Giuseppe Cucchiarelli,

or Giuseppe II. He calls me Eppetondo.

It's such an honour to host you. There are simply no words!

He is our old revolutionary,

I'm still just a beginner. He fought on the other side.

Nothing. Children often make mistakes.

- Come on! Now I'll show you! - Long live the revolution!

Long live the red flag!

Red flag!

Bring on the world revolution!

In the Colosseum, in San Pietro and in Verano!

Let's establish the Hollywood-Paris-Moscow air bridge!

And we will have whisky, vodka with caviar and imported cigarettes!

- Give me cigarettes! - Well done!

Mum, where is Blitz?

- Where are the glasses? - Which?

There is no more blitz.

And the house is gone too.

I wanted Blitz...

What if there's dinner here?

Now let's all eat together!

Let's! Nino has arrived!

- Shall we make amatriciana? - Let's go to Amatrician!

- My favourite pasta! - Nino has come to us!

Let's all have dinner together!

- Where are you going? - Who is that there, behind the curtain?

What do we have here?

Who are you?

Yes, some people.

And who?

Carlo Vivaldi.

- Are you one of ours? Are you a communist? - Communist?

I'm an anarchist.

Our great teacher Karl Marx, of course,

was rather against the anarchists. Can't argue with that.

A red flag and a black flag are different things, I agree.

But in these difficult times we must unite against a common enemy.

So?

- Do you know what I will say? - What do you say?

I like anarchy.

- Me too! - Well done!

Nino, Nino, this is real bread.

Eat, son, eat.

Can I have a piece of bread?

Eat.

Are you Milanese?

I'm from Bologna.

- Why are you here? - It's true.

Why are you here?

Tired of the excesses of the Black Shirts.

So much for me.

Was he also a fascist?

No, I've always been an anarchist.

Here you go.

You only come to me to eat.

And then he fawns over him, Carlo.

I call her Rossella

so that there are fewer questions for me. Actually, that's not her name.

What is it really like?

Russia.

- Russia. - Really, Russia?

This is understandable.

Did you serve in the army?

I escaped from a column of deportees,

from an armoured train that runs along the front line.

Got caught in a raid?

Do you know what suicide barracks are?

Approximately.

And I was there.

- Cells like bunkers. - Without ventilation?

There is one light bulb on the ceiling,

always on.

Nearby there is a hole with a musket barrel.

You breathe through it.

And at night you could hear the locks creaking.

Then sobs and screams.

Then shots in the yard.

And silence.

How did you escape from there?

One morning they came for me.

I was sure that they would kill me right away.

But they put me in the carriage.

There were already two corpses there for unloading.

And at the first stop...

I…

Enough! The guy has no strength left!

Indeed, enough is enough. It will all be over soon.

Don't think about it anymore. Let's have a drink instead.

Great idea! Let's pour!

Come on, Karulina!

Put on some music.

Let's have a drink instead.

For the underground!

Long live the underground!

I'm sorry, of course, but if all this anger gnaws at you,

why don't you join the armed struggle?

I can't kill anyone.

- How so? Why can not you? - And really, why?

Anarchy denies power

and since power and violence are one

and the same, anarchy denies violence.

Do you know other ways to fight such an enemy?

- I do not understand. - No.

OK. Go to sleep.

- Yes. - Go out tomorrow morning.

Are you leaving already?

Yes.

- Good night, comrades. - Good night.

Good night.

- Good night. - Oh my God…

Hello Nino. Hush, Uze. People sleep here.

I have to go.

Need money?

Of course, mum. If you have it, I'll take it.

I started receiving a little bit of my salary.

Do you know what I thought about all night?

That Carlo is not from Bologna.

His accent is somehow wrong.

But he really is an anarchist.

Your grandfather Giuseppe, my father,

was also an anarchist.

Follower of Bakunin.

I think Carlo Vivaldi is not his name.

- It seems to me that he is Jewish. - Quiet!

Crazy?

Here you go. Just don't spend it all on cigarettes.

When will you come back?

I don't know, mum. Don't know.

Comrades.

I also want to join your ranks.

I thought about it all night.

How to do it?

What's wrong?

I'm thin but strong like an ox.

- Do you know Remo? - Do you know him?

The owner of the bar on the square.

Remo? All of San Lorenzo knows him. And what?

He's one of ours. If you say that you are from us, he will explain everything.

Everything will be explained.

Wait for me, Remo.

- Thank you. - I want to be with you.

Useppe.

I understand.

I can't take you now, Uze.

But I promise, I swear to you,

that as soon as I can, I will take you and me to the partisans. Fine?

It's time.

Come in.

Wait!

Thank you.

Come on, quickly. Get in.

Hello!

- What is your name? - Useppe.

Useppe!

Come on, come on, go to the right, go back. Leave calmly, come on.

- Is your bicycle? - Yes.

Drive on.

There's not a word about it in the newspaper,

and all of Rome is listening.

I heard it too.

They say that yesterday the Germans went through all the houses of

Rome, dragged all the Jews out into the street and put them in trucks.

They say there is no one left in the ghetto.

Rumour has it that the SS had an exact list.

They took everyone: young, old, children.

What do you say, signora?

- I didn't know. - No, I'm talking about shoes.

They are two sizes larger, but that's even better.

Baby, come on, try it.

Take a walk.

Well? How do you like them?

Great!

Let's get out of here.

Signora di Segni!

You do not remember me? I am Ida, Ida Ramundo.

We are with you. We often saw each other at the grocery store.

- In the ghetto. - No.

Is it true that everyone was taken away?

You do not know? I'm Jewish too.

Let's run, Uze.

- Mother! - Let's run!

Pulls away from the loading platform.

CARGO PLATFORM

Settimio!

- Settimio! - Go away, signora!

I'm not going anywhere! My family is here!

Answer me! Di Segni!

The di Segni family! Respond!

Settimio!

Settimio! My name is Settimio!

- I'm Settimio! - Cesare!

Esterina!

Cesare! Settimio!

Settimio!

The di Segni family!

The di Segni family!

Here! I'm here, Celeste!

Hurry here!

Settimio!

Settimio!

Signora, go away!

Settimio! Are the others there too?

Esterina? Baby! Where's the baby?

They tell you to leave quickly!

Otherwise they'll catch you too!

- I won’t leave! - Leave now!

I won't leave! Open the door!

Leave! Get out of here, mum! Leave!

I won't leave! I won't leave you!

I'll go with you! I'm not going anywhere!

I will not leave!

- Open it! - Go away, mum!

Otherwise they will take you away too! Leave!

Run away from here quickly!

Fascists!

Fascists!

Take me too!

I should be with them too!

I'm Jewish too!

Fascists!

I'm Jewish!

I should be with them too!

Let me in! My family is there!

Let me go to them!

Boy!

Boy, call your mum!

Signora! Signora!

Wait here.

I'm here! Here.

Here.

Pass the note.

I am begging you.

And my note! Take the note!

Mine! I beg you, pass the note!

Pass my note!

Find Effrati.

Emilia Effrati. Find her, with God's help!

She's in the ghetto. Go to the ghetto.

Maybe there is still someone left there.

Tell me I'm here. That he left on this train.

Go away! Fast! Go away!

If you see Effrati Pacifico,

tell me that we are all healthy.

Let's go home, mum! Go home!

Yes!