Il Cuore nel Pozzo (2005)

Original title

Il cuore nel pozzo

Directed by

Alberto Negrin

Genre

war & politics, drama

Country

Italy

Runtime

1h 38m

Rating

10.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A group of children escapes from Tito's partisans after World War II. The partisans are starting an ethnic cleansing of Italians from Istria and the Julian March.

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What happens

Il Cuore nel Pozzo (Italian for The heart in the pit; often reported in Croatian media with the translation Srce u jami and in Slovene Srce v breznu) is a TV movie, produced by state broadcaster RAI, that focuses on the escape of a group of children from Tito's partisans in the aftermath of World War II, as they start an ethnic cleansing of all Italians from Istria and the Julian March. The word "pit" in the movie's title refers to a foiba, indicating foibe massacres. The movie was watched by 17 million people on its first broadcast in Italy. It was the first time that a major TV event was broadcast in Italy about the dramas of Foibe and Istrian Exodus. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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