(23 January 2017) For the occasion of the 2017 International Holocaust Remembrance Day commemorating the 72nd anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the Italian Cultural Institute of Madrid will screen the film “Anita B.” on 26 January at 20:00 in collaboration with the ‘Institute for the History of the Resistance, the Contemporary Society in the Biella, Vercelli and Valsesia area, the Sefarad-Israel Centre. “Anita B.”, directed by Roberto Faenza, is based on Edith Bruck’s novel “Quanta stella c’è nel cielo”. Anita, a young women from Hungary who survived Auschwitz, is received by her only living relative, Monika, her father’s sister who refuses to be called ‘aunt’ and who sees her neice as a burden. In Zvikovez, among the Czechoslovakian mountains not too far from Prage, Monika lives with her husband Aron, their son Roby and Aron’s brother- the young and attractive Eli. In the village situated in the Sudetes, territories that were previously occupied by Germans, Nazis are being deported and those who escaped to holocaust replace them, in an increasingly tense environment with the advent of communism. Anita is surrounded by men and women who want to forget the past, dance, listen to American songs transmitted from across the iron curtain from Voice of America. Anita dreams like all the others, but unlike them she doesn’t hide her true spirit. (Red)
