"Betraied Italians": the #Holocaust through an unusual perspective. #Jews faced with the 1938 racial laws in Italy amidst disbelief, disorientation, deception, self-deception or awareness. Tito #Giliberto's documentary reconstructs exemplary events. Liliana Rimini, survived to 1938 racial laws in Italy, recounts her father's incredible escape from the train to Auschwitz (direct testimony also reconstructed in fiction). The Ovazza case: a Jewish banker and staunch fascist, killed in 1943 with his family. Other cases of Italian Jews who understood the Nazi trap too late. The Foà Case: actress Alba Barnabei plays the role of the Jewish secretary to the hierarch and friend of Hitler and Mussolini till Auschwitz. At the end, the #Sarfatti Case: the Jewish lady who "invented" the Duce.
With: Liliana Rimini, Carla Antonini, Gianmaria Ottolini, Gianni Galli, Alba Barnabei.
The documentary is the sequel to the previous one, "Fake Art," about fascist architecture, and concludes the historical trilogy started with "The Anti-Fascist Era" (all prized).