Il Cuore nel Pozzo

Il Cuore nel Pozzo Italian for The heart in the pit often reported in Croatian media with the translation Srce u jami and in Slovene Srce v breznu is a TV movie, produced by state broadcaster RAI, that focuses on the escape of a group of children from Titos partisans in the aftermath of World War II, as they start an ethnic cleansing of all Italians from Istria and the Julian March. The word pit in the movies title refers to a foiba, indicating foibe massacres.

April 1945. The German army is losing the war and Titos Yugoslav partisans are rapidly gaining ground.Giulia is a woman who earns a living by singing in a tavern in an unnamed village in what appears to be an ethnically Italian area of Istria. She had a child named Carlo six years earlier by a Slav named Novak, who has now become a partisan leader. It appears that Novak had raped Giulia, but Novak will later claim Giulia reported him to the police to get rid of him. The Italian police would rather believe an Italian woman than a Slavic man. The movie does not give a clear answer as to whose version of the story is true. Novak comes back to Giulia to claim his child, but she refuses to give him up. She attracts the attention of German soldiers and Novak must flee. ........

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