THEn occasion of Remembrance Day (which falls tomorrow January 27th), this evening at 9.20pm on Rai 3 the docufiction is broadcast For a new tomorrow. The story – with protagonist Neri Marcorè – is the little-known one community of over 70 foreign Jews deported to a camp in Tuscany. The film alternates between historical reconstruction recent interviews with survivors to the Holocaust. Including Liliana Segre.
For a new tomorrow is freely taken from The closed horizon by Silvia AngeliniOscar Guidi and Paola Lemmi
For a new tomorrowthe plot of the docufiction
With Italy’s entry into the war in 1940, foreigners present in Italy are arrested as they are considered possible enemies. Even Jewish foreigners. To the prisoners money and documents are seizedthey are forced not to speak to the local population, they cannot leave without special permission and they are Only allowed to leave the house during the day.
The documentary film focuses on 70 of these Jews, transferred between 1941 and 1943 to forced isolation in Castelnuovo di Garfagnanain the province of Lucca.
The protagonist is Dr. Israel Meyer (Neri Marcoré), a Russian pediatrician arrived in Pisa in 1932 together with his young wife. After deportation to Teramo, Meyer was then moved to Lucca where, in a short time, he became a point of reference for the interned community.
Neri Marcoré in a scene from the docufiction “For a new tomorrow”. (Rai Press Office)
Fiction and testimonies of survivors
Directed by Luca Brignone, For a new tomorrow reconstructs the true story of the two years of forced cohabitation of this community. Among the first difficulties of integration, the bans, the continuous humiliations and the solidarity of the Italian population.
A story told using historical reconstruction on the one hand, on the other, the interviews with the very few remaining witnesses. Like Simona Nissim, Vilma Papi, Leo Verderber and indeed the senator Liliana Segre. In between, precious archive images never seen before.
«It was a different way of paying homage to the victims of internment», declared the director, «but also to the brave Italians who didn’t turn away, but who instead tried to offer a hand, a smile, a blanket, a piece of bread.”
Neri Marcoré’s civil commitment
Actor, comedian and impersonatorNeri Marcoré always has combined his passion for entertainment with his passion for civil causes. Sensitive and engaged in the social spherethe artist not only has conducted with passion many editions of the May Day Concert but in 2017 it was creator of the festival RisorgiMarche. And lately a lot has also been spent on the flood in Emilia Romagna.
Neri Marcoré at the Rome Film Festival. (Getty Images)
On his participation in For a new tomorrowthe actor declared in a press note: «I accepted this proposal because Thinking about the Holocaust is something that touches me deeply every time». Adding that «it really is the most gruesome page in the history of humanitywhich is therefore good to remember with the hope that things will not happen again.”
To then conclude with a hint of bitterness «Human beings are probably not capable of learning from their mistakes. And this is a reality, it’s not about being pessimistic or optimistic. It’s just what we see happening all the time.”
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