Red Land (first feature)

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original title:

Rosso Istria

cast:

Selene Gandini, Geraldine Chaplin, Sandra Ceccarelli, Franco Nero, Diego Pagotto, Eleonora Bolla, Carla Stella, Vincenzo Bocciarelli, Maria Vittoria Casarotti Todeschini, Andrea Pergolesi, Vasco Mirandola, Monica Garavello, Gaetano Lembo, Valentina Bivona, Francesca Amodio, Maximiliano Hernando Bruno, Valerio Mazzuccato, Christian Renzicchi, Alessandro Trotta, Simone Guerra, Alessandro Albertin, Antonio Scarpa, Sasa Sikanic, Aleksandar Tokovic, Vladimir Grigoriev, Jessica Acquavita, Carolina Salvador, Claudio Casol, Danilo Leo Lazzarini

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country:

Italy

year:

2018

film run:

150'

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colour

release date:

15/11/2018

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It’s September 1943, the days when chaos breaks out in the parts of Italy tormented by the war. Marshal Badoglio, head of the Italian government, manages to get the Allied forces to agree to an armistice and flees Rome along with the king, leaving Italy in pandemonium. The army can no longer tell who the enemy is and who is on their side. The story becomes a tragedy for the soldiers, who are left to their own defenses, but also and especially for the civilians of Istria, Fiume, Giulia and Dalmatia, who now must face a new adversary: Tito’s partisans, steadily advancing and driven by anti-Italian rage.
In this dramatic historical context, Norma Cossetto emerges as a key figure – a young Istrian woman, student of the University of Padua, barbarically raped and murdered by Tito’s partisans – chosen for this brutal crime only because she was guilty of being Italian.