AND if the Americans, during World War II, instead of fighting the Nazis allied with them? Maybe we couldn’t think of a worst case scenario. Yet, someone really imagined it, and even wrote a book about it: The plot against America, Pulitzer Prize novel Philip Roth published by Einaudi in 2004.
And it is precisely from this event – the election of Charles Lindbergh to the presidential elections of 1940 – that the miniseries in three evenings The plot against America, broadcast on Rai3 tonight, Thursday 20 and Friday 28 January at 21.20.
The series, broadcast in the US on HBO And in Italy on Sky, is also broadcast live streaming on RaiPlay. In the cast, Zoe Kazan, Anthony Boyle, John Turturro And Winona Ryder.
Winona Ryder.
The plot against America, based on the novel by Philip Roth
New Jersey, 1940. World War II, which is still a purely European war, is at the center of the US election campaign. On the one hand there is the democrat Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the incumbent president, on the other the republican Charles Lindbergh, the aviator who first crossed the Atlantic alone.
Lindbergh, aka actor Ben Cole, is a national hero, a symbol of the United States at home and abroad. However, it has a small flaw: looks with sympathy at what Adolf Hitler is doing in Europe.
The Jewish family of the Levins – father Herman (Morgan Spector), mom Bess (Zoe Kazan) and the sons Sandy (Caleb Malis) and Philip (Azhy Robertson) – is a witness to the increasing rise to the power of the aviator, which turns the United States of America into an anti-Semitic country allied with the Nazis. Little Philip will witness, in spite of himself, the violent political and social changes that ensue.
John Turtutto.
John Turturro: “I love Philip Roth”
“I love the writing by Philip Roth” he has declared John Turturro. “Adapting your novels isn’t easy at all because it’s very introspective. Explore the feelings, let you enter the mind of his characters, makes you feel what they think and they try. And I hope the same happen to the television audience seeing the series ».
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