On the 29th on Rai3 the documentary Four days for freedom: Naples 1943

Documentary film by Massimo Ferrari, for the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi-fascist oppressor.

For the eightieth anniversary, on September 29th at 21.15:3 pm, Rai 1943 presents the documentary "Four Days for Freedom: Naples 8," a Big Sur production with Luce Cinecittà in collaboration with Rai Documentari, Titanus spa, and Mad Entertainment, with the contribution of the Campania Region and the Campania Region Film Commission, and the support of the City of Naples. With the armistice of September 1943, XNUMX, the war became even bloodier.

German troops and fascist soldiers, instead of leaving the Gulf in defeat, ordered the evacuation of hundreds of thousands of inhabitants from the coast, continuing to burn and pillage, ordering the roundup of young people, and the shooting of those who resisted. Hitler ordered Naples to be reduced to "ashes and mud."

But Naples reacted, "first European metropolis to rise up against the Nazi-Fascist oppressor with the sole strength of its people", as the scholar Guido D'Agostino wrote, becoming the protagonist of one of the most intense and moving pages of the Resistance.

Produced by Lorenza Stella, Maria Carolina Terzi, Carlo and Luciano Stella, who also wrote it with director Massimo Ferrari, the documentary recounts that extraordinary popular and civic epic through unpublished documents, testimonies, archival materials, animations, and sequences from Nanny Loy's 62 film "The Four Days of Naples."

"A historical moment with contemporary significance because it reveals how and to what extent the civilian population is always, systematically, and deliberately attacked in every conflict," said Luciano Stella. "But it also shows how capable they are of reacting with the strength of their community. A story that reveals the nature of Naples, its ability to tolerate suffering, but also its capacity for rebellion. A heroic moment, unique: like the city itself."Luisa Ranieri, "the voice from within," gives voice to Naples, based on texts by Maurizio de Giovanni. Animated inserts by Alessandro Rak and Dario Sansone, accompanied by a soundtrack by Antonio Fresa, tell the stories of the youngest heroes of those days, with the voices of Sara Mormile, Massimo Andrei, Marianna Fontana, and Mario Di Leva.

The documentary also features numerous interviews, including one with former partisan Antonio Amoretti, who died last December at 95, and those with Marisa Laurito, Cristina Donadio, Peppe Barra, and Enzo Gragnaniello. These interviews, as well as Massimiliano Gallo's special performance, are set in the Catacombs of San Gennaro, the heart of Naples that, under the bombings, held the dreams, desires, and hopes of an entire city.