by Valeria Gelsi
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. Read More