The story is based on a real event: a small cemetery near Gorizia was divided between Italy and Yugoslavia in 1947 and stayed that way until 1976. The central place of the film is a political and military border imposed by the powers on high. The countryside that provides the location is Santa Croce, the furthest outlying of Trieste’s neighbourhoods, and the small village of Monrupino, close to the border with present-day Slovenia.
The story is based on a real event: a small cemetery near Gorizia was divided between Italy and Yugoslavia in 1947 and stayed that way until 1976. The central place of the film is a political and military border imposed by the powers on high. The countryside that provides the location is Santa Croce, the furthest outlying of Trieste’s neighbourhoods, and the small village of Monrupino, close to the border with present-day Slovenia.
Copyright: ©Archivio fotografico Cineteca Nazionale, Roma. Selezione a cura di: Valentina Contessi, Elisabetta Chiarotti, Alessandro Andreini
Copyright: ©Archivio fotografico Cineteca Nazionale, Roma. Selezione a cura di: Valentina Contessi, Elisabetta Chiarotti, Alessandro Andreini
Copyright: ©Archivio fotografico Cineteca Nazionale, Roma. Selezione a cura di: Valentina Contessi, Elisabetta Chiarotti, Alessandro Andreini
Gina Lollobrigida
Copyright: ©Archivio fotografico Cineteca Nazionale, Roma. Selezione a cura di: Valentina Contessi, Elisabetta Chiarotti, Alessandro Andreini
Copyright: ©Archivio fotografico Cineteca Nazionale, Roma. Selezione a cura di: Valentina Contessi, Elisabetta Chiarotti, Alessandro Andreini
Gina Lollobrigida
Lux Film
After WWII, a small village in the Carso region is divided by a white line designating the Italian-Yugoslavian border: the inhabitants are given only hours to decide which side of the line they wish to live on. The demarcation brings division amidst houses, friends, families and the church provoking growing tension.
