

01/01/2004
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.

Ken Duken
as Joseph Indig

Jasmine Trinca
as Tilla Nagler

Max von Sydow
as Valobra

Ana Caterina Morariu
as Shosha

Ennio Fantastichini
as Marco Shocky

Eliana Miglio
as Helene

Toni Bertorelli
as Mortara

Alfredo Pea
as

Andrea Tidona
as

Nino Frassica
as

Thomas Trabacchi
as

Tullio Sorrentino
as

Pietro Ghislandi
as

Pasquale Esposito
as

Asen Mutafchiev
as

Ivan Dzhambazov
as

Zlatil Davidov
as

Bogdan Glishev
as

Peter Meltev
as

Nikolai Binev
as

Stoyan Aleksiev
as

Maria Kavardjikova
as

Maria Statulova
as

Malin Krastev
as

Miroslav Kosev
as

Lyuben Chatalov
as

Marin Yanev
as

Assen Blatechki
as

Svezhen Mladenov
as
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