A film signed by Gianluca Mazzella who closely tells the drama of Italian exiles
The prime time debuts on Rai 1, just on the day of memory, the film-TV The little girl with the suitcase, Directed by Gianluca Mazzella for the screenplay by Andrea Porporati. The fiction is inspired by the book of the same name and a powerful photography of 1946, which has become the symbol
of a forced exodus, to bring the drama to the small screen Foibe events and of theExodus Giuliano Dalmatian. The story revolves around the story of a child, Egea Haffnerwhose fate is upset by the disappearance of the father, presumably victim of the sinkholes. Appointment today, Monday 10 February 2025, At 9:30 pm on Rai 1 And streaming on Raiplay.
“The little girl with the suitcase”: plot
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In the winter of 1944, the little girl Egea Haffner (Petra Bevilacqua) lives in Pula with her family, among the escapes in the shelters for the bombings and serenity of the villa of grandparents. His father Kurt (Andrea Bosca) manages a jewelry in the city. The war seems to end up in the spring of 1945, but things fall with the arrival of Titini partisanswhich take control of the Region. One night, two men knock on the door: they look for Kurt, take him away with the promise of a simple control. He will never return again.
Soon, the voices on his fate spread: it may have been thrown into the sinkholes. For Aegea and his family begins a new nightmare. Due to the growing hostility towards Italians, the girl is forced to leave Pola to find Refuge in Bolzanowelcomed by grandmother Maria and aunt Ilse. His mother Ersilia instead chooses to start all over in Sardinia. Growing, Aegea will no longer be able to forget the weight of the uprooting and the fate shared by beyond 250.000 GIULIANO-DALMATI exiles.
The cast
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The film de The little girl with the suitcase includes a cast with several well -known faces of other films and TV series, such as Claudia Vismara (view in Rocco Schiavone And Black in half) And Sara Lazzaro (Do-in your hands And Call My Agent Italy). Below, the list of Main interpreters and the respective roles:
- Petra Bevilacqua – Egea Haffner as a child
- Sinead Thornhill – Egea Haffner at 18
- Roberta Sferzi – Egea Haffner at 60
- Claudia Vismara – Ersilia, Aegea mother
- Sara Lazzaro – Ilse, Aunt of Aegea
- Andrea Bosca – Kurt, father of Aegea
- Sandra Ceccarelli – Mary, paternal grandmother of Aegea
- Mattia Teruzzi – John
- Davide Strava – Alfonso
- Enrica Rosso – Pauline
- Anita Kravos – Mother Superior
curiosity
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To direct the girl with the suitcase is Gianluca Mazzellawho immediately recognized the value of the history of Egea Haffner. “When they proposed to direct me The little girl with the suitcase It took me a few minutes of online search to create theimportance of the opportunity I had in front of him, “said the director. The meeting with the protagonist of the story then definitively convinced him to tell this page of the story for the first time in a film-TV movie.
Filming took place in the autumn of 2024 in Friuli Venezia Giulia. Among the locations chosen: Trieste, Sistiana, Duino Aurisina, Grado – the latter transformed for the occasion in the Pula of the time – but also the lakes of Fusine, the Piuma -Isonzo and Gorizia park, which recreated the atmospheres of Bolzano . The film is not the result of fantasy: It draws inspiration from the true story of Egea Haffnerwhose iconic photography with the suitcase has become Symbol of the exodus Istrian-Dalmatian.
Gazzetta dello Sport
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