Mthe first two episodes of the series aired together History directed by Francesca Archibugi, based on the novel of the same name by Elsa Morante (1974)they kept glued in front of the TV as well 4.5 million viewers, beating the GF on Canale 5. The story of the Jewess Ida (Jasmine Trinca) and his two sons touched the hearts of Italians during the Second World War.
Tonight (on Rai 1 at 9.30pm) two more episodes of the 17 million euro blockbuster series, produced by Picomedia in collaboration with Rai Fiction, and with Thalie Images, are broadcast.
The story takes place in the San Lorenzo neighborhooddestroyed by bombs, and the Roman countryside, where some displaced people found refuge in a disused dairy farm in Stoned. Among them too Ida and little Useppewho befriend the marble worker Eppetondo and the Mille family. Nino instead he is on the war front.
History: plot of the second episode
Ida after being saved from the bombing of San Lorenzo decides to leave the neighborhood with the child Useppe and other displaced people. She has nothing left: His house is destroyed and even the dog Blitz didn’t make it. The woman finds refuge in a abandoned dairy farm in Pietralata where he knows the Neapolitan family of the Thousandled by matron Sora Mercedes, and Giuseppe Cucchiarelli (Elio Germano), a communist marble worker, kind and funny, who He immediately becomes attached to Useppe. The child, not knowing how to pronounce his name well, calls him Eppetondo. And from that moment on, for the entire Cucchiarelli community it will be Eppetondo.
The young man is also welcomed into the Pietralata dairy Carlo Vivaldi (Lorenzo Zurzolo), an anarchist Jewish student, escaped to deportation of his family, including his 12-year-old sister. The young man, who says he is from Bologna, will join Nino (Francesco Zenga) and to the partisan strugglein which the innkeeper Remo will also participate (Valerio Mastandrea) and Eppetondo. When Ida he hugs his eldest son Nino again he doesn’t believe his eyes: he thought he died in the war. It will also be a moment of great joy for Useppe.
The deportation of the Jews and the flashes of conviviality
Thanks to the Mille family Ida and Useppe manage to live on moments of lightness even in the precarious context in which they find themselves living, threatened from the horror of war, from famine and bombs. Music, dancing and conviviality around a table with the little food that the group manages to scrape together gives flashes of apparent serenity.
Ida often goes to San Lorenzo to collect some food, even from the hands of her friend Remo. One day, together with Useppe, he comes across on a train leaving Tiburtina loaded with Jews of the ghetto who are about to be deported. What poor Giselda announced in the neighborhood before the bombing and which everyone thought was “rubbish”, is about to come true. For the Germans, the Jews are a race to be eliminated.
Jasmine Trinca. (Photo Iacovelli-Zayed)
History: Nino’s first love and Eppetondo’s death
In tonight’s second episode, Nino confesses to Useppe that he has found the love of his life, a girl who lives in the Roman countryside, named Mariolina. «When this war ends I’ll marry her», the partisan confesses to his little brother. Meanwhile, the German soldiers shoot the partisans on sight and look for men between 16 and 60 years old, even at the Pietralata dairy. The shelter has now become dangerous.
The Thousand leave the Roman countryside to head towards Naples. Ida and Useppe are the only ones to stay there, but there news of the death of poor Eppetondo pushes Ida to resume the journey together with her son, who is growing up with horror in his eyes. The funny marble worker, who danced with Ida and made Useppe laugh, dies a hero. Captured by the Nazis he is torturedbut he does not betray his fellow partisans: he does not reveal their refuge.
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