ORToday it is celebrated all over the world Remembrance Day 2025, the established day on January 27th of each year to commemorate all the victims of the Holocaust. On this Monday there are many initiatives, films and television programs that, in some way, keep the debate and reflection alive on the still present drama of one of the most painful and dramatic pages in history. From the cult film The Truce by Francesco Rosi to the surprising Jojo Rabbit by Taika Waititi, up to the program special The Tower of Babel by Corrado Augias, the small screen manages to make its profitable contribution to telling the truth.
Remembrance Day 2025, all TV programming for January 27th
Persian lessons (Rai Movie 24, 3.45 pm)
Among the films proposed, that of the Ukrainian director Vadim Perelman presents one new look, between fairy tale and hope. In occupied France in 1942, Gilles (Nahuel Pérez Biscayart) manages to hide his Jewish origins convincing the Nazis who want to kill him to be a Persian citizen.
This lie saves his life because Captain Koch (Lars Eidinger) takes a liking to him. He plans to learn the language, with plans to open a restaurant in Tehran in the future. Gilles he is forced to literally invent a new alphabet.
Jojo Rabbit (Rai Movie 24, 5.30 pm)
The surprising bittersweet comedy directed and starring Taika Waititi chooses the a child’s point of view to tell the horrors of Nazism. In 1945, the little German Jojo (Roman Griffin Davis) lives with his mother Rosie (Scarlett Johansson). With his great imagination, mixed with Nazi indoctrination, creates an imaginary friend who looks like Adolf Hitler (Waititi).
When he discovers that the Jewess Elsa is hiding in the house (Thomasin McKenzie), a schoolmate of his sister Inge, who died in sad circumstances, is torn between the desire to become her friend and the obligation to report her presence to the Gestapo.
Sam Rockwell, Scarlett Johansson and Roman Griffin Davis in “Jojo Rabbit”.
Sara’s key (Rete 4, 4.30 pm)
In 2010, the director Gilles Paquet-Brenner directed the excellent Kristin Scott Thomas (The English Patient) in one of the lesser known episodes and painful from the Shoah. In July 1942, in Paris occupied by the Nazis, the unspeakable anti-Semitic episode of Winter Velodrome roundup.
Nowadaysthe journalist Julia Jarmond (Scott Thomas) has to deal with this sad story. Her searches lead her to discover the dramatic story of little Sarahthe only survivor of her family in that carnage.
When Hitler stole the pink rabbit (Rai 5, 9.15 pm)
Based on the homonym and popular novel for children from 1971 by author Judith Kerr, the film directed by Caroline Link is a delicate and touching childhood story. In the city of Berlin in 1933, Hitler comes to power. The pink rabbit is little Anna’s Kempler (Riva Krymalowski). The little girl he had to leave it at home Whysuddenly, the father Arthur (Oliver Masucci) and the mother Dorothea (Carla Juri) they took her away in a hurry to take refuge in Switzerland.
His family is of Jewish origin and Arthur ended up on the Nazi blacklist. The toy thus becomes the metaphor of the annihilation of childhood of entire generations of children.
“When Hitler stole the pink rabbit”.
The pianist (Sky, 9.15 pm)
One of the most intense masterpieces of Roman Polański, winner of numerous Oscar awards in 2002 including the one that went to Adrien Brody for Best Actor in a Leading Role, is based on autobiographical novel demusician Władysław Szpilman. In 1939, Poland is invaded by German troops. Pianist Szpilman (Brody) he is forcedlike many of his fellow citizens, to live within the walls of the ghetto.
After avoiding deportation, he hides for months among the destroyed and abandoned houses. The meeting with a German captain (Thomas Kretschmann) lover of his music, it changes his life. The American actor is nominated again for the 2025 Oscars for The Brutalist, an equally intense and painful story about the persecution of the Jews.
The Tower of Babel special Remembrance Day 2025 (LA 7, 9.15pm) – The Truce (9.50pm)
The Obscured Consciousness And the broadcast special The Tower of Babel for Remembrance Day. Corrado Augias, with its elegant and authoritative style, introduces viewers to the vision Of The Truce, masterpiece by Francesco Rosi based on the novel of the same name by Primo Levi. Levi’s Long Journey, played by John Turturrodeported survivor of extermination who, to return home to Poland, he travels approximately 6,000 kilometers between bad weather and difficulties.
Auschwitz, the last days before liberation (LA 7, 11.30pm)
At the end of the film Corrado Augias presents this new documentary composed of rare period footageprecious testimony to the truth of the Holocaust. Among the most touching words is the voice of Sami Modiano, an Italian Jew born in Rhodes and who survived the extermination.
The son of Saul (TV 2000, 11.50 pm)
One of the most paradigmatic works on the Holocaust. Masterfully directed in 2015 by then newcomer László Nemes, deservedly won theOscar for Best Foreign Film. The protagonist is the Jew Saul (Géza Röhrig), deported to Auschwitz, And forced to collaborate with the Nazis accompanying his fellow men to the gas chambers and taking away their corpses. His terrible daily life is made up of desperation, a tenacious desire for survival, tenacity and the specter of madness.
A story told largely with subjective techniquecapable of conveying to the viewer all the horror and sense of claustrophobia of the victims of the Holocaust.
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