A stellar cast for a courageous first work: And Red Land (Red Istria), the film I go through the martyrdom of Norma Cossetto tells of the terrible violence suffered by the Istrian populations, Fiumane, Julians and Dalmatians by the Tito partisans. The film, produced by Venicefilm in collaboration with Rai Cinema, will have its world premiere on Tuesday 6 November at 20 at the “The Space – Moderno” cinema in Piazza della Repubblica in Rome, while in the morning will be presented to the press in the Nassiriya Hall of the Senate. A sign of the institutional commitment to ensure that this production was realized, e created under the aegis of Rai.
An unexpected fact, consider the reticence and sometimes the outright denialism towards this page of Italian history. Despite, Indeed, for fifteen years now (the law was passed in 2004), the memory of the Foibe has entered the civil calendar of the country with Remembrance Day of the 10 February, talking about this Italian drama is still very difficult. He knows it well among others Antonello Belluco, who signs the screenplay together with the director Maximiliano Hernando Bruno to his first work. Belluco's previous work on theme of partisan violence, The Secret of Italy, which tells the story of the Codevigo massacre, it was in fact the subject of a ferocious boycott, which also saw the ANPI deployed. And the same production as Red Land (Red Istria) it had a long and difficult gestation: all the commitment and courage of the team that produced the film and of those who supported it were needed so that Norma Cossetto's story could finally be told to the general public, leaving the channels of "voluntary" projections (as it was game force for The secret of Italy), projecting itself onto the international scene also thanks to the participation of stars such as Franco Nero e Geraldine Chaplin e, above all, getting Rai's institutional commitment.
«Having supported this great work of truth is an honor. Everyone must see this film in theaters and by organizing screenings", he wrote Maurizio Gasparri on his Facebook page, posting the trailer of the film and underlining that it is «a film that tells the truth about the foibe, on the martyrdom suffered by Norma Cossetto and by many Italians massacred by the Slavic communists. Rosso Istria – Red Land tells a denied or hidden truth».
The film debuts, among other things, on a particular occasion: the 75th anniversary of the death of Norma Cossetto, Istrian student of the University of Padua who was raped and killed by Tito's partisans simply for being Italian. To his memory President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi awarded a gold medal for civil valor, so motivated: «Young Istrian student, captured and imprisoned by Slavic partisans, she was tortured and raped for a long time by her jailers and then barbarically thrown into a foiba. Bright testimony of courage and love of country". Until now, but, only the courageous works of some private individuals (including the graphic novel Red Foiba. Norma Cossetto, story of an Italian, edition of Ferrogallico) and the commitment of a few political subjects (like Gasparri's battle for the intervention of Rai) they had brought his name out of the "memoirs" relegated to a niche. A reality that obtaining the Rai Cinema brand on Red Land gives hope that it can finally be overcome.
SOURCE: http://www.secoloditalia.it/2018/11/foibe-il-film-rosso-istria-arriva-nelle-sale-gasparri-racconta-una-verita-negata-video/
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