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ROME The trailer was presented at the 73rd Venice Film Festival, but this year alone, "Red Land – Rosso Istria" was screened, still at the Lido, for the sole representatives of the institutions. After a long gestation, the long-awaited feature film on the drama of Italy's eastern border after the Second World War was premiered in Rome on November 6 and will arrive in Italian theaters tomorrow. Supported by the National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmazia and the Veneto Region, produced by Venice Film, in collaboration with Rai Cinema, the film signed by Maximiliano Hernando Bruno presents for the first time on the big screen the history tragic of the young Norma Cossetto, infoibata in October 1943 and a symbol of the tragedy that has upset our border regions. The idea was launched in 2015, on the occasion of Remembrance Day, embraced from the beginning by the badociations of exiles of Istria, Fiuman and Dalmatian. The strongest push is an invitation to reflection, but also to the knowledge of history.
"Red Earth" ("Red of Istria"), the film about the young woman killed in the night of October 4 to 5, 1943 by titans partini in the room in November. Released in theaters in November
In fact, "Rosso Istria" presents itself as a blockbuster, it addresses the general public, especially the youngest, and appeals to an international distribution including Geraldine Chaplin, Franco Nero and Sandra Ceccarelli. Without giving up a circular and poetic structure, the film catapults us in September 1943, at a time when chaos breaks out in the Italian territories torn apart by the war. Marshal Badoglio, head of the Italian government, asks for and gets the armistice of the Anglo-Americans and, with the king, fled from Rome, leaving Italy in disarray. The drama is transformed into a tragedy for the soldiers left to themselves in the theaters of war, but also and especially for the Istrian, Fiuman, Julian and Dalmatian populations who face a new enemy: the partisans of Tito. It is in this complex historical context, to which "Rosso Istria" dedicates a very long frame, which gave birth to the figure of Norma Cossetto (a convincing Selene Gandini), a young Istrian student, who obtained a thesis entitled "Istria red ", red like the Istrian Earth, rich in bauxite.
Overall, the film is powerful, even if it pays a bit heavily. Geraldine Chaplin opens and closes the circle through the expedient, not new, of painful memory. "I thought I would forget – told us at the opening of the curtain – instead, what I saw as a child was growing day by day. It is his character who delivers us the most lyrical images of "Rosso Istria", a film that, when the pain comes, shows it to us, in unambiguous terms. "Evil and good are everywhere," shouts Professor Ambrosini (Franco Nero) to his enemy, "we are only human beings, all of us". And it is precisely the good and the bad that are the absolute protagonists of this tragic story, staged, as often happens in war films, in a strictly Manichean way. Hate calls hatred, a dictatorship replaces another, a domino effect whose existence is complete and that "Rosso Istria" leaves aside, to focus on the horror of this black page of our history .
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