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TV programming for Remembrance Day 2022
A tragic page in Italian history, a wounded and contested land, crushed by border tensions in an Italy on the edge of the Iron Curtain. Istria and Dalmatia between 1943 and 1947 became the scene of massacres, of lives sucked into the darkness of the foibe, the karst cavities that dot the territory of Venezia Giulia, a place from which thousands left fearing for their survival. Parliament has chosen February 10 as the Day of Remembrance, in memory of the victims of the foibe and the Julian-Dalmatian exiles, and Rai will dedicate broadcasts, in-depth reports and special programming on TV, radio and the web to this anniversary. All the...
TV programming dedicated to Remembrance Day 2021
Below is a summary of the television and digital editorial initiatives dedicated to the “Day of Remembrance” in memory of the victims of the Foibe (Wednesday 10 February 2021), curated by RAI and Mediaset. These are the programs that will talk about the anniversary with different editorial methods: Rai1 Ample in-depth spaces dedicated to the anniversary are planned in the following programs: Saturday 6 February Il Caffe di Rai 1 (06:00) Sunday 7 February Uno Mattina in Famiglia (06:30) Speciale Tg1 (23:30) pending confirmation Wednesday 10 February Uno Mattina (from 06:45) Storie italiane (09:55) Oggi è un altro...
There is still an under-representation of our history
Interview by Andrea Altin with Senator Maurizio Gasparri on the occasion of the 2020 Day of Remembrance ceremony which took place on Monday 10 February at the Basovizza Foiba National Monument. Senator, in your speech on the occasion of the solemn ceremony at the Basovizza foiba you referred to the period in which our history remained the subject of conversation for a few «There were many who knew what had happened in the eastern border areas, but there were few who had the courage to talk about it. Ever since I was a boy, the discussion of the exodus and the foibe was limited to a certain number of circles where politics was done» Now...
Red land – Rosso Istria in a reduced version for schools
Thanks to the contribution of the National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia, Venice Film has created the shortened version of the feature film "Red land - Rosso Istria" for schools. The Veneto Region, with its characteristic sensitivity in dealing with the events of the history of the eastern Italian border, has financed the distribution of the film in DVD format in high schools in the area. The initiatives proposed in schools and the meaning of the operation to enhance the historical memory of those events were presented on the occasion of the 2020 Day of Remembrance in Dolo, at Cinema Italia, by the regional councilor for Education and Training Elena...
Red land – Rosso Istria on DVD
It is September 1943, in the days when chaos breaks out in the Italian territories of the Eastern Front following the armistice of September 8. With the Italian army now in disarray, the populations of Istria, Fiume, Giuliana and Dalmatia find themselves facing a new enemy: Tito's partisans who are advancing in those lands, driven by an anti-Italian fury. In this dramatic historical context, the figure of Norma Cossetto, a young Istrian student, graduating from the University of Padua, barbarously raped and killed by Tito's partisans, will stand out. The film, made with the contribution of the National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia, can be...
A turning point of Remembrance in Italy
The Day of Remembrance 2019 is a fundamental step in the reconstruction of the historical truth regarding the most tragic pages of history of the eastern Italian border. First of all because the words pronounced by the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella during the institutional ceremony held at the Quirinale on February 9 condemned without appeal the justificationists and deniers. In front of 300 exiles and representatives of the Adriatic diaspora associations and live on television, the Head of State captured the peculiar aspects of our history and was able to present them to all Italians in a heartfelt and convincing manner, without reticence and...
