Refugees in Cinecittà ( Profughi a Cinecittà )

Refugees in Cinecittà (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Profughi a Cinecittà
Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
Italian ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Italian ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Italy ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
52 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Black & White

Movie filmed in 2012 and produced in:
Italy ( Italy, Greece )

Directed By:
Marco Bertozzi

Written By:
Marco Bertozzi

Actors:
Marco Bertozzi

Synopsis:

Cinecitta, the great movie studio built by Mussolini, became universally known as 'Hollywood on the Tiber' and as Fellini's second home. But in an interim period (1944-50) it served very different functions, quite unlike that of a dream factory. Under the Nazi occupation of Rome it was a transit camp for deportees, then following the liberation, it was transformed by the Allies into one of the largest displaced persons camps in Italy. People of some 30 nationalities, entire families, children who had lost everything but their lives, found refuge there. Their experience living among the remnants of collossal movie sets is at the heart of this film directed by documentarist and film scholar Marco Bertozzi, and based on groundbreaking research by Noa Steimatsky (UC). This vivid, startling documentary explores the fortunes of the Cinecitta camp and its inhabitants, unfolding a story hitherto untold in the chronicles of European reconstruction, and of film history.

The film tells the transformation Cinecittà went through in the years between 1943 and 1950, as it experienced the Nazi occupation, the creation of a refugee camp run by the Allies and finally the re-birth of the so-called 'Hollywood on river Tiber'. After it had been a concentration camp for nine hundred men who had been caught in the nearby Quadraro quarter, on October 16, 1943, Cinecittà was plundered by Nazis and 16 wagons left Rome for Germany and Salò Republic. In January, 1944, the studios were bombed by Allies - it was one of the about fifty bombings Rome suffered. On June 6, 1944 the 'city of cinema' was requisitioned by Allied Control Commission to house thousands of war refugees. A modernistic movie complex, though profoundly bombed out, was soon transformed into a refugee camp: Italian homeless on one side, an international field on the other - trespass being strictly forbidden. Cinecittà was the destination for people coming from everywhere: the sons and daughters of Italian colonists in Libia, the displaced people of Rome and Monte Cassino's bombings, the exiled people of Dalmatia, several Jews who had been interned or imprisoned in German lagers. We want to follow those very refugees walking in nowadays Cinecittà, letting their story emerge as they move along today's studios and reality shows' sets.

This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday 18 November, 2015.

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