L'uomo che verrà (The Man Who Will Come)
Directed by Giorgio Diritti, 2009, 115 minutes
Winter, 1943. Martina is eight years old and lives on the slopes of Monte Sole, not far from Bologna. She is the only daughter of a peasant family which, like many others in the village, is struggling to survive. Martina had stopped talking after the death of her infant brother years before, but when her mother becomes pregnant again, Martina lives waiting for the baby (“the man”) who will come. In the meantime, the war approaches and life becomes increasingly difficult. The night between October 28th and 29th, 1944 when the baby is finally born, the SS unleashes an unprecedented raid, which will go down in history as the Marzabotto massacre. A difficult but very important historical event is handled sensitively and tastefully.
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