Anna, Teresa e le Resistenti
Original title: Anna, Teresa e le Resistenti
Directed by: Matteo Scarfò.
Screenplay: Giovanni Scarfò
Production: Regional Council of Calabria 2009 / ScarFord Produzioni
Cinematography: Leone Orfeo
Calabrian scenes cinematography: Davide Manca
Editing: Matteo Scarfò and Giovanni Scarfò
Music: Giorgio Nottoli
Starring: Nick Mancuso, Mariano Rigillo, Anna Teresa Rossini, Antonella Civale, Liliana Massari, Antonio Tallura, Patrizia Furfaro, Marco Cassini, Alessandro Damerini, Alessandro Scaretti, Claudio Spadola, Alessandra Mortelliti, Paolo Turrà, Pietro Faiella, Vito Favata, Patrizia Ciabatta , Giovanni Andriuoli, Giuseppe Pestillo, Francesca Giorgini, Ottavia Bianchi, Maria Laura Caselli, Alessandro Londei, Marco Paparella, Gabriele Geri, Marco Grossi, Federico Giunti, Vincenzo Tallura, Domenico Diele, Alberto Melone, Simone Condomitti, Alessandro Casula, Daniela Macrì.
Nationality: Italy
Year: 2010
Duration: 84 minutes
Genre: experimental historical docufilm
Participations in the main festivals: Salerno International Film Festival 2010 (Mention of Merit), ICFF Italian Contemporary Film Festival 2012
Distribution: Circuito Biblioteche Romane (DVD)
Synopsis: Not many people knew about Teresa Talotta Gullace’s life story until Anna Magnani portrayed her in Roberto Rossellini’s Roma, Città Aperta, (Rome, Open City).
In March 1943, during the German occupation of Rome, Teresa was shot by a Nazi soldier while trying to throw a package of bread to her detained husband. Her death shocked Rome and she soon became a symbol of the Italian Resistance.
Six decades after Teresa’s death, Italian director Matteo Scarfò has produced a riveting docudrama about how a bullet changed the lives of an actress and a Roman resistance fighter.
Anna, Teresa e le Resistenti tells the story of the role Italian women played during the war, the brutality of the German Occupation, the bombardments, and the importance of cinema during this tragic period.
The stories we hear come from the memories of an Italian-American soldier and other pivotal personalities of that time.
Anna, Teresa e le Resistenti, starring Canadian actor Nick Mancuso, is a must-see for those who have seen Roma Città Aperta, knowing too well the fate of Magnani’s most famous character, Sora Pina.