Hidden Children
La fuga degli innocenti
This is a true story about forty Jewish children on their way to Palestine, who were blocked by the German and Italian occupation of Yugoslavia in 1941. Before finding a haven at Villa Emma in Nonantola in northern Italy, where they arrived on June 17, 1942, the children spent several adventurous months in Slovenia, caught up in the ongoing fight between the partisans and the Italian army. In April 1943, another 33 children, some from the Balkans, others from France, joined the original group. All were orphans who had lost their parents in concentration camps and had subsequently been smuggled out of Germany by Recha Freier, a well-known Zionist. The group ranged in age from six to twenty one and settled in at Villa Emma with their chaperones and teachers, Josef Indig, Marco Schoky and the pianist Boris Jochverdson.
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Toni Bertorelli
as Mortara
Andrea Tidona
Pasquale Esposito
Nikolai Binev
Maria Statulova
Jasmine Trinca
as Tilla Nagler
Max von Sydow
as Valobra
Thomas Trabacchi
Pietro Ghislandi
Bogdan Glishev
Ken Duken
as Joseph Indig
Ana Caterina Morariu
as Shosha
Eliana Miglio
as Helene
Assen Blatechki
Maria Kavardjikova
Nino Frassica
Ennio Fantastichini
as Marco Shocky
Alfredo Pea
Malin Krastev
Marin Yanev
Tullio Sorrentino
Lyuben Chatalov
Svezhen Mladenov
