THEn waiting for Remembrance Day, next January 27th, this evening at 9.15pm on Rai 5 goes on air Useless mouths. 2022 film directed by Claudio Uberti that tells the inhumane treatment suffered by women in Nazi concentration camps. An opportunity to reflect once again on the female condition during the Shoah but also in the present.
Useless mouthsthe plot of the film on Rai 5
Inspired by the true stories of some women survivors of the Holocaust, the film focuses on the victory of Esther (Margot Sikabonyi).
Forty-year-old Italian Jew, she remains alone after a raid takes away her husband and family. Sent to the Fossoli transit campnear Carpi, becomes friends with Ada (Patrizia Loreti) but after a while he comes sent elsewhere. Thus he escapes a journey towards Auschwitz and to a certain death.
Arrived at Ravensbrück camp in Germany, the largest female concentration campabout 80 kilometers from Berlin, Ester discovers she is pregnant. With the complicity of Lia (Lorenza Indovina) and Giuliana (Nina Torresi), friends who share her condition, she tries to do everything possible to hide the pregnancy and thus save her baby.
A scene from “Useless Mouths”. (Reggi & Spizzichino Press Office)
The Shoah from the female point of view
Directed by Claudio Uberti from Brescia, the film tells the horror of the Holocaust from a new and original perspective. That is, it focuses on a group of women prisoners and the abuses suffered by them.
Locked within the walls of the concentration camp, Useless mouthsas the title suggests, wants to reflect on female condition during the terrible years of Nazism and in the concentration camps. Where the women were living beings without purpose, useless mouths. A consideration that, intelligently, the director it also transforms into a reflection on the present.
A powerful and direct message that goes beyond the limits of a film that is in some ways too theatrical in writing and that winks at fiction in prime time on Rai 1. Net of some staging uncertainty, the excellent female cast – above all the good co-protagonist Lorenza Indovina – but gives many moments of sincere emotion.
«EverythingThe film is dominated by the idea of a denied femininity.” the director declared in a press conference. On the one hand “it sheds light, for the first time on something unsaid about the cinematic rendering of the Shoah”, on the other it alludes, “albeit indirectly, to the plague linked to violence against women».
Margot Sikabonyi in a scene from “Useless Mouths”. (Reggi & Spizzichino Press Office)
Margot Sikabonyi, from A doctor in the family at the busy cinema
Born in Rome in 1982, the actress begins at just 11 years old, in the TV film I have a secret with dad. After a short apprenticeship, in 1998 he became famous thanks to the TV series A doctor in the family. She where she plays Maria, the eldest daughter of the doctor Giulio Scarpati.
In the third season of the hugely popular series, Margot Sikabonyi becomes the protagonist of the events of the Martini household together with the new entry in the cast Pietro Sermonti (Scarpati has since left the series). From TV to real life: the actress she was romantically linked to Sermonti from 2003 to 2009.
Altering cinema, series (including Boris) and TV movies, Sikabonyi remained in the cast of A doctor in the family until 2014. Then the decision to dedicate himself mainly to theatre. Mother of two childrenhad by her ex-partner Jacopo Lupi, in recent years has also become a very popular one yoga teacher.
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