Australia – “The Forgotten Front” by Paolo Soglia and Lorenzo K. Stanzani
On the occasion of Italy’s Liberation Day on April 25th, the Italian Cultural Institute in Sydney is hosting the screening of The Forgotten Front by Paolo Soglia and Lorenzo K. Stanzani, a documentary about the Resistance in Bologna, the largest city in northern Italy on the front line.
It tells about the war of the Allied forces from 1943 to 1945 on the Gothic Line, the German occupation of the city during the Republic of Salò, and the struggle for Italy's Liberation conducted by the partisans and the population supporting them.
The title recalls the expression used by the New York Times on 11 December 1944, when the Allied advance in Italy had stopped for many months, frozen due to winter, leaving the Resistance with the burden of fighting the Nazi-fascists on the ground while the Americans and the Russians were rushing towards Berlin from France and Eastern Europe.
The authors recovered unedited and rare cinematographic and photographic materials.
The documentary was produced by Bologna based Orso Rosso Film in co-operation with the Cineteca di Bologna and had the support - among others - of the Emilia-Romagna Film Commission.
The screening will be introduced by Cristiana Palmieri from the University of Sydney and followed by a Q&A session with the authors Lorenzo K. Stanzani and Paolo Soglia, both attending remotely from Bologna.
The event is organized by the Italian Cultural Institute in co-operation with Società Dante Alighieri Sydney and the National Italian Australian Women’s Association (N.I.A.W.A.).