Anna, Teresa e le Resistenti

Plot

Not many people knew about Teresa Talotta Gullace’s life story until Anna Magnani portrayed her in Roberto Rossellini’s Roma, Città Aperta, (Rome, Open City).

In March 1943, during the German occupation of Rome, Teresa was shot by a Nazi soldier while trying to throw a package of bread to her detained husband. Her death shocked Rome and she soon became a symbol of the Italian Resistance.

Six decades after Teresa’s death, Italian director Matteo Scarfò has produced a riveting docudrama about how a bullet changed the lives of an actress and a Roman resistance fighter.

Anna, Teresa e le Resistenti tells the story of the role Italian women played during the war, the brutality of the German Occupation, the bombardments, and the importance of cinema during this tragic period.

The stories we hear come from the memories of an Italian-American soldier and other pivotal personalities of that time.

Anna, Teresa e le Resistenti, starring Canadian actor Nick Mancuso, is a must-see for those who have seen Roma Città Aperta, knowing too well the fate of Magnani’s most famous character, Sora Pina.
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Trama

La storia di Anna Magnani si intreccia con quella di Teresa Talotta Gullace, la donna originaria di Cittanova, in Calabria, che ispirò il film più celebre dell’attrice romana, “Roma città aperta”. Due personaggi le cui vite, senza incontrarsi mai, si unirono indissolubilmente.

Il ruolo delle donne durante la guerra, la tragedia dell’occupazione di Roma, i bombardamenti, le vite di coloro che fecero grande il cinema italiano e il viaggio all’interno della memoria di un soldato italo-americano: una ricostruzione basata su eventi e testimonianze reali tra cinema, teatro e documentario.
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