original title:
Quando i tedeschi non sapevano nuotare
directed by:
cast:
Michela Cescon
screenplay:
cinematography:
editing:
music:
production:
country:
Italy
year:
2013
film run:
75'
format:
DCP - colour
status:
Ready (23/10/2013)
festivals & awards:
The Italian Resistance in the plains around Ferrara and the Polesine area is a little-known chapter of World War II, but those plains also had their heroes, martyrs, wounded and war memories. By speaking with eyewitnesses to that struggle and hearing their accounts, I have tried to reconstruct the history of those decisive months.
Director’s Statement
The plains, the canals, the Po River
that fans into its delta and lagoon: the lack of hiding places
meant that the Resistance to the Nazis and the Fascist regime
would take a particular form. With its martyrs and its heroes,
its victims and spies, this Resistance spawned traumas and
memories I have tried to describe in talks with some of the last
remaining participants.