Dafter San Lorenzo and Pietralata Ida and Useppe move to the Testaccio neighborhood of Rome. This is where it starts again Historya series based on the novel of the same name by Elsa Morante. In the third episode (broadcast tonight at 9.30pm on Rai 1) Ida tries to survive the hunger together with little Ueppe (Nino instead lives by smuggling in Naples) and goes to live with his family, the Marroccos.
These are not the only news from tonight’s episodes. Also joining the cast is the prostitute Santinaplayed by Asia Argentowhose smile brings a bit of lightness to the Marrocco family, anxious for their son Giovannino, left for war and lost in the freezing territory of Siberia.
There is also the Beautiful dogto the joy of Useppe, and Patrizia, Nino’s new girlfriend. Italy is liberated from the Germans and perhaps there is a glimmer of light in Ida’s life.
History: the plot of the third episode
Ida (Jasmine Trinca) and little Useppe leave Pietralata for the Roman neighborhood of Testaccio. Here they rent a room with the family Moroccoled by the dressmaker Filomena (Antonella Attili) and her husband Tommaso (Enzo Casertano), who works as a porter in the hospital. Annita, their son’s bride, lives with them Giovannino, a desperate soldier in Russia of whom there is no news. Waiting for his return Donna Filumena He rents his son’s room to Ida, who struggles to feed Useppe.
Meanwhile Nino (Francesco Zenga) moves to Naples together with Davide (Lorenzo Zurzolo), and not Carlo, as the Jewish boy called himself. They smuggle together cigarettes. Ida is worried, too Useppe’s health, increasingly tormented by nightmares. The baby is as healthy as a fiddleit is the war that marked him forever.
The Americans drive out the Germans, Rome is free, but the horror has left many consequences: in the ghetto only 16 Jews returned from deportation. That train that Ida and Useppe had seen packed with Jews was headed straight for the concentration camps.
The character of Santina, played by Asia Argento
Eppetondo (Elio Germano) was killed in the previous episode. Thanks to her money, Ida manages to rent the Marroccos’ room. Here he also meets Santina (Asia Argento), a cheerful prostitute, with a flaming red smilewhich carries a breath of lightness at home, thanks also to the tarot cards he reads to the women of the family.
How will love go? And what will be Giovannino’s future? It’s theirs? Santina is a catalyst for good news.
Davide, having returned to Rome, meets Santinatowards whom he feels a deep affection. The woman also has respect for that handsome Jewish boy whose entire family was exterminated. Santina is the smile in this episode, but her life is marked by an overbearing and abusive pimp.
Asia Argento. (Iacovelli-Zayed)
Is happiness possible for Nino, Useppe and Ida?
Ida starts teaching at school again and hopes that life with her two children can go back to how it was before. Finally she rents an apartment in Testaccio all for them and for some time Nino also moves in with her and Useppe.
In the meantime the young smuggler has become engaged to Patrizia (Romana Maggiora Vergano, Paola Cortellesi’s daughter in the blockbuster film There’s still tomorrow) and took with him a new dog, the Maremmana Pretty. For the joy of Useppe.
Antonella Attili and Jasmine Trinca. (Photo Iacovelli-Zayed)
Is a happy life possible? Will it be a new beginning for Ida, Nino and Useppe? To find out we will have to wait for the series finale airing tomorrow night and not next Monday.
The Marrocco family co-protagonists of the third episode of History
After the Thousand family, co-protagonist of the second episode of Historyit’s up to the Ciociari Morocco.
In their house lives their grandfather, a slightly senile old man who only wants to drink wine; Tommaso, the head of the family, who works as a hospital porter; the seamstress Filomena, direct and foul-mouthed, always dealing with the sewing machines, the clients and the tarot cards of her friend Santina; And Annita (Ludovica Francesconi), the little bride of her son Giovanninomissing in Russia.
The wait for Giovannino’s return is the family’s constant concern.
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