'Italian Film in the Shadow of Auschwitz'

Italian Film in the Shadow of Auschwitz
by Millicent Marcus
University of Toronto Press, 2007

This excellent book offers significant insights into Holocaust representation in Italian films.

- L’ebreo errante (The Wandering Jew) by Goffredo Alessandrini, 1947

- Il grido della terra (The Cry of the Land) by Duilio Coletti, 1948

- Il monastero di Santa Chiara (The Monastery of Saint Clare), by Mario Segni, 1949

- Tutti a casa (Everybody Home) by Luigi Comencini, 1960 [video]

- Kapò by Gillo Pontecorvo, 1960 [video 1, video 2, video 3, video 4, video 5, video 7, video 8, video 9, video 10, video 12, video 14, video 15 {numbers refer to You Tube titles}]

- L’oro di Roma (The Gold of Rome) by Carlo Lizzani [video]

- Vaghe stelle dell'Orsa (Sandra) by Luchino Visconti, 1965 [video {Sandra's mother: "You have Jewish blood like him. You are corrupt, like him!"}]

- Andremo in città (We'll Go to the City) by Nelo Risi, 1966, based on the eponymous novel by Edith Bruck

- Il giardino dei Finzi Contini (Garden of the Finzi-Continis) by Vittorio De Sica, 1970, based on the eponymous novel by Giorgio Bassani

- Diario di un italiano (Diary of an Italian) by Sergio Capogna, 1971, based on the short story 'Wanda' by Vasco Pratolini

- Il Portiere di notte (The Night Porter) by Liliana Cavani, 1974 [video {English version}]

- Pasqualino Settebellezze (Seven Beauties) by Lina Wertmüller, 1976 [video {opening, with English subtitles}]

- La linea del fiume (The Line of the River) by Aldo Scavarda, 1976

- Prima della lunga notte - L’ebreo fascista (Before the Long Night - The Fascist Jew) by Francesco Molé, 1980, based on the novel Un ebreo nel Fascismo (A Jew during Fascism) by Luigi Preti, 1974

- Storia d’amore e d’amicizia (Story of Love and Friendship) by Franco Rossi, 1982

- La Storia (History) by Luigi Comencini, 1987, based on the eponymous novel by Elsa Morante

- Gli occhiali d’oro (The Golden Eyeglasses) by Giuliano Montaldo, 1987, based on the novel by Giorgio Bassani

- Jona che visse nella balena (Jonah Who Lived in the Whale) by Roberto Faenza, 1993 [video 1, video 2 {ending}]

- 18.000 giorni fa (Eighteen Thousand Days Ago) by Gabriella Gabrielli, 1994

- La vita è bella (Life Is Beautiful) by Roberto Benigni, 1997 [video 1 {Guido Orefice's talk about the race manifesto, in Italian with English subtitles}, more videos {You Tube presents the English version in 12 clips}]

- La tregua (The Truce, aka The Reawakening) by Francesco Rosi, 1997, based on the novel by Primo Levi

- Canone inverso (Making Love) by Ricky Tognazzi, 2000, based on the novel by Paolo Maurensig [video]

- Il cielo cade (The Sky Is Falling) by Andrea e Antonio Frazzi, 2000 based on the eponymous novel by Lorenza Mazzetti

- Concorrenza sleale (Unfair Competition) by Ettore Scola, 2001

- Perlasca: Un eroe italiano (Perlasca: The Courage of a Just Man) by Alberto Negrin, 2002 [trailer; video 1, video 2, and video 3 {all in Italian with English subtitles} / dossier 'La Storia siamo noi' - Rai]

- La finestra di fronte (Facing Windows) by Ferzan Ozpetek, 2003 [trailer]

- Il servo ungherese (The Hungarian Servant) by Massimo Piesco and Giorgio Molteni, 2004 [video {making the film}]

- La fuga degli innocenti (The Flight of the Innocents) by Leone Pompucci, 2004

- ’43–’97 by Ettore Scola [this short film is included in the DVD accompanying the book]