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Countryman!

Countryman!

I'm coming, mum!

I soon.

Annita, I'll be there soon.

Darling…

I'm falling asleep.

I soon.

Soon.

LA STORIA Episode 6

JASMINE TRINKA

FRANCESCO ZENGA, MATTIA BASCIANI

LORENZO ZURZOLO AND OTHERS

- Where is Ida? - There.

- Signora Ida! - Yes?

Would you like me to tell your fortune next time?

For free.

Thank you, Santina, but I'm shy.

Certainly. They don’t talk about secret things in front of everyone.

We will tell fortunes in private in your room.

This is Giovannino's room.

Take it off.

AFTER ELSA MORANTE'S NOVEL OF THE SAME NAME

Your question?

- When will he return? - Six cards.

If you’re like my brother Clemente, then it’s better not to.

Shut up, you can't talk like that!

But we must admit, this is not far from the truth.

He was healthy - now he is disabled.

My Giovannino is more agile. He's unharmed, you'll see.

Mum!

- Useppe! - Hush hush.

This is a magician.

Chariot!

Return!

God!

- It is he! - Open it.

Babe! Open up!

Clemente.

Philomena.

To the past...

At the Italian border they gave me 1,500 lire.

At first I was happy

but then I bought cold cuts, which cost

two hundred liras.

Clemente, today you can’t take a step without money.

No.

I don't drink anymore. I lost even that.

What's wrong with your leg?

This?

It was bitterly cold.

I walked, then stopped and took off my shoe.

I took it off with my leg.

Funny?

What do you know about the war?

Hundreds of dead, mountains of corpses to the skies,

wolves, cannibalism...

Where is it?

In Siberia.

- What kind of people are there? - In the villages

people are kind-hearted.

Some even fed and watered us in such cold weather.

And Giovannino?

Last time I saw him

during the retreat from the Don River.

It is when?

Seems…

Yes, it seems, 25 January 1943.

The column dispersed.

We ran together.

From exhaustion, he fell to his knees.

I took off his duffel bag, which was very heavy, and helped him stand up.

A couple of kilometres later he fell again.

- Was he wounded? - No.

I wanted to drink.

Poor thing!

I gave him some snow.

- Snow?! Didn't you have water? - We were lucky that there was snow.

When we were standing in Siberia, we had to drink urine.

Quiet! Sorry…

So what is next?

And then…

Giovannino stayed there waiting,

when someone takes him away on a sleigh or cart,

and we parted.

Did you leave him?

- We had to save ourselves. - Clemente was captured.

Yes.

I surrendered to the Russians.

In the camp I asked all my colleagues from Siberia,

do they know anything about Giovannino.

But no one saw him.

Certainly. Russia is a huge country. Immense!

Certainly! He's probably hiding somewhere.

Yes. Maybe he gave up too.

And he is a prisoner in a camp somewhere far away.

- Yes? - Maybe.

Of course, Annita is right.

He is waiting for release and will come. Just later than the others.

Santana!

Oh Nello.

O.K. Goodbye.

- Bye, Santina! - Bye!

Santana!

What are you staring at?

He looks...

Nello!

I've been looking for you all day.

I said to be home. Don't leave.

Let's go!

The client is waiting at home, he is wearing it somewhere!

I left the pasta, did you eat?

Yes, I ate everything. Go.

Davide!

- Santina! - Hello!

Have you been here before?

Yes.

And he didn't tell me.

- Should you? - Come on, pay.

He's back! My handsome! How are you You've lost weight.

- Yes. - Maybe wine?

I'll treat you to something good, just wait. Now.

- Here. A full glass, just the way you like it. - Thank you.

Well? Where have you been? Did you go north?

- Delicious. - Delicious.

- I am so glad. I was thinking about you. - Yes?

I remembered you. I kept thinking: where is my handsome guy?

- Nello! - Hello!

- Did you kill the cat? - Go to hell, Claudio!

Shut up, thief!

In the north I was a worker.

I wanted to know what work is...

...and the working class.

I lasted two weeks.

Then I overexerted myself and got sick.

Hopeless bourgeois.

Take it easy, don't push yourself too hard.

Listen,

do you have a house in the north?

- Yes. - Big?

Yes.

And empty.

There were looters there.

Everything was cleaned out when my family was deported:

furniture, chandeliers, carpets, father's library.

My sister's porcelain doll remains.

In a silk dress.

Wearing a hat and a ribbon around his neck.

She constantly looked at me.

I know dolls.

They are evil.

Take!

Bella!

Bella! To me!

Antonio! Beautiful dog. Where did you get it?

I bought it yesterday at the port. This is a bitch.

Gorgeous!

Thank you. Gigi, here you go.

Thoroughbred.

Five or six thousand.

And I bought two packs of cigarettes.

- Antonio, sell it to me. - What is this, a thing?

- She's alive, Nino. - So you won’t sell?

- No. - Six thousand lire.

No.

Seven! I give you seven!

Nino, forget it! My dog.

Eight. And half from my cigarettes.

- I give it. - Keep them for yourself. They are a commodity

but the dog doesn’t.

Let's go, Bella, let's go!

Philomena!

Philomena!

Philomena!

- Philomena! - What?

What's happened? What's happened?

- What? - He's coming.

Who-who-who?

Good God!

This is Giovannino.

I saw him standing there, on the stairs.

He is there! There.

- Giovannino! - Giovannino!

- Giovannino! - Giovannino!

- Giovannino! - Giovannino!

Giovanni! Giovannino!

- Giovannino! - Giovannino!

But there's no one here.

- Were you hungry? - He was there!

I swear!

He stood in his uniform, and he also had an overcoat on top.

He looked at me.

So attentively, as if he was angry. And he put his finger to his lips.

It was he!

Blonde hair, medium height.

Exactly him.

- As in the photo... - Here it is!

- I told you not to touch her, okay? - Quiet!

Philomena!

Why were you silent?

I was so freaked out!

What exactly?

Don't know.

Yes?

- We need to talk. - Yes, just be quiet.

Giovannino is already on his way home.

The cards said.

And our soldiers are returning from Russia.

I hate to say, but,

He's probably angry at us for

renting out the room you're staying in.

I feel awkward.

But I ask you to leave as soon as possible,

so that it will be empty when he returns.

OK.

Have nowhere to go?

Nowhere.

I can't help you because I need this room.

She needs to be freed.

NEW MANAGER

- It seemed like the bar was cursed. - Good afternoon!

- The owner did not return. - And how many more of these!

- Yes, that's all everyone talks about. - Yes.

What do you want?

To be honest, I wanted to leave an ad.

- How many returned? - 16.

And 1,056 left.

You can stick it on the door and leave a few at the bar.

- That train left for Auschwitz. - They told us.

Nobody believed it.

- Mum! - Yes?

I can't wrap my head around it. There are 16 people in total.

Shoemaker?

Did you see what he became? Skin and bones.

Vomits from food. And they all have a stamp with a number.

Numbered. Like cattle, no less.

Place an ad in Parioli.

On the streets of Ludovisi, Boncompagni - in that area.

There were no children left in the ghetto.

PRIVATE LESSONS

They were killed first.

They went straight from the train to the gas chambers.

What is he doing?

This is Primo, the junk dealer.

They took him with his wife and three children, and returned alone.

He hits the wall and that's it.

Is he from the train?

Okay, thank you. Good-bye.

Make me some coffee, please. Thank you!

Sorry!

- Hello! - Hello!

Are you from the train?

Did you happen to see Signora Celeste di Segni there?

Or Maria di Capua, the midwife? I'm looking for them.

Do you want a watch?

They are Swiss.

- No. - Ten lire.

- Thank you. - Maybe at least five?

For a bun?

Half a loaf?

Do you want a watch?

They are Swiss.

I am hungry.

Hungry.

Boy, look.

Tell mum.

Watch. Switzerland.

- Let's go. - Yes.

Here.

Useppe! Useppe!

What are you doing? Uze!

Go to mum!

What's happened? Useppe! Useppe!

- Mother! - I'm here. I'm here.

Do you see?

Can you see me?

Honey, what is it?

I'm here. Here. Well!

- Come on, go to sleep. - I don't want to sleep.

I'm scared.

Where are you scared?

Here?

It's just a dream.

- Many dreams! Too much! Too much! - Everyone dreams.

- Are you dreaming good things? - Yes.

- Nino. - Nino, right?

- And what does he do? - Dancing.

Dancing?

Calm down. We need to calm down.

You know? Let's do it this way. Listen.

Nino will come and we’ll play your favourite song, right?

And we'll dance together.

Is it coming? Yes?

Quiet.

Shall we sing it?

Will you sing with mum?

Quiet. Quiet.

And early in the morning at dawn

Abruzzo is covered in gold!

To these flowering valleys

The dear peasant woman is running!

Loud!

Beautiful peasant girl!

You are more beautiful than the queen!

The sun plays in your eyes, the colour of lilacs, the valleys of colour!

Get to hell!

Philomena...

Philomena. Okay, let's eat.

Peace reigns everywhere When the peasant woman sings!

If you want to be happy, stay with us!

- He's premature. - Get up.

And what's that?

Imagine a pipe.

Breathe.

Deep.

Deeper.

Take a deep, deep breath.

Fine. Lungs are clean.

I’ll say right away that I don’t see any illnesses in him.

- Am I getting dressed? - Yes, put it on.

Hands.

He is slightly thin.

Child of war, that's understandable.

But he is mobile.

Come to me.

- So, Giuseppe... - Useppe.

Giuseppe is Eppetondo. Like Stalin.

Understood. Useppe.

He is very clever.

Very.

Wonderful.

He has

something so incomprehensible.

Father?

- Died. - What is your last name?

Yes, he was born without a father.

You could still give his last name.

I was alone. I have two sons, and the war...

Did your father have hereditary diseases?

He died from the disease of the century.

Cancer?

- At that age! - Died out in two months.

We thought it was something African.

- He returned from Ethiopia. - Ethiopia?

While?

O.K. Come here. Let's.

Useppe, right?

Beautiful eyes! Unusual!

Tell me, is it developing quickly?

Yes.

Can he talk for a long time?

- With yourself, for example? - Yes.

He tells stories.

Call it poetry.

And he thinks. According to him.

No. Not now.

Lei, lei.

Useppe! He'll have enough, or he'll burst like grandpa.

Okay for you!

Signora Ida, watch your son, okay?

By the way, when are you moving out?

Only next month.

Signora Maria has not moved yet.

What if Giovannino returns?

- Sorry. - I don’t want Signor Morocco to burst.

Don't worry. Even a gun can't handle that.

So! How disgusting you are!

I could have burst myself already.

It will burst, it will burst...

Open wide.

- Like this. - Tasty.

Yes.

And this one too.

But it doesn't taste good.

Swallow.

- Do you want to sleep? - Yes.

Lie down.

- Please, no nightmares. - Hope.

What are you doing, Uze?

Badly?

What you?

Uze!

Badly?

Close eyes.

Sleep.

Where do we start: from the past, present or future?

The future - no, it scares me.

What's scary? We all die.

Devil. Traitor.

- I don't want to know about the devil. - This is a good card.

The traitor protects you.

He says to be more careful.

Jews were sold for 5,000 lire.

And it wasn’t the Nazis who sold them,

and the fascists.

Italians.

Do you know who I am.

I see.

To the past.

Beloved, major lasso.

The secret is about to become clear.

Star.

Your defender is already close.

Nino! Nino is coming!

Uze!

- This is the unit! - Useppe!

- What is the displacement? - 500.

- Nino! - Come down.

- Will you go for a ride? - Then we’ll go for a ride, I promise.

Mum, come down too!

- Andrea, don't touch it. - Nino!

- Nino! - Will you come for coffee?

This is my brother!

Get in.

Wow!

Nino!

Hello! Give me a hug.

Don't you say anything?

And what to say?

Put it on.

Are you happy, Uze?

Where are you going?

We’ll make a circle and come back, don’t worry.

Button up.

Let's go, I'll tell you everything later.

Are you ready?

- Hello! - Hello!

Nello!

Come here.

Look.

Where is he from?

Where did you get it?

- Got it dirty. - Who is it from?

He's for you.

On the.

Where?

I bought it from a market stall.

I remembered that at the shelter they gave you a bear cub for

Christmas and then took it back.

Who allowed? What is the price?

I will not say.

Here.

- Hungry? - Yes.

Now.

There is cheese.

You start earning less.

You're getting old.

We'll have to look for someone younger.

I'm not hungry, come here.

Lie down next to me so I don't see how disgusting you are.

Santana! Are you home?

Santana!

Shut up, he'll leave now.

OK.

- Santina! - She's gone!

She's gone!

Why are you shouting?

- Let's go to. - Turn away.

Come up to me!

Catch!

- More. - Enough, Uze.

Kiss Me.

Sad eyes again?

Dry from tears.

You can't be sad anymore.

Now we will have fun together and conquer the whole world.

I want the three of us to be at home.

Run.

Useppe!

- Tell mum I'll be there soon. - OK.

I soon. Go.

Uze, straight.

- Hello! Remember? I'm Mancuso. - Yes, of course, come in.

Not true! Not true!

Up those stairs to the fifth floor.

Useppe!

Let's go.

Let's.

Go to the fifth floor.

- Well, show me! - Nino!

Toilet…

- Is this the kitchen? - Yes.

- I cook dinner. Are you going to eat? - Come on?

Tasty! I can’t, Patricia is waiting for me.

- Who is this? - Girlfriend.

- Do you live together? - For now, yes, we'll see.

Okay, you need a closet.

I'll get it. And a crib for Useppe, otherwise he will grow up to be a sissy.

- Really, Useppe? - Yes!

- And then what? - Look. Is it your room.

- She's ready. - What, all mine?

Yes.

You've thought of everything.

There is even a Latin dictionary.

Lost her mind?

Let's go to.

Where? Where are you going?

- See you in the evening, mum! - Bye, mum, bye!

Bye, Uze!

- Bye, Nino! - Let's go, man.

The same Useppe!

Let me take a look at you!

It's not true, Nino, his eyes are more beautiful than mine.

What a handsome!

- Let's go for a ride. - Let's go to.

Hey, wake up!

Touch it!

Great!

Bye mum!

Bye everyone!

Give it gas!

- Bye! - Hold on tight, Uze!

Bye! Bye!

- Faster! - No, don't you dare! No!

- Gas, Nino! - With joy!

Let's kill ourselves!

I'm Useppe, and you?

Bye!

God! Your brother is here!

And the duck? Where is she?

Run and treat her to bread.

I'll call.

Very good…

When they get married...

Nino brought us here...

When they get married, Patricia

and Nino,

Patricia will come to live with us.

You're just a gun.

And you.

And your brother.

Uze!

Useppe!

- What? - Come here!

Go.

Come on, show yourself!

How beautiful you are! Whose eyes are these?

- Who would have known! - Will you give it to me? Why do you need him?

- Will you go with her? - To our home?

And you can’t say that you are brothers.

- You are different. - Certainly.

We have different fathers.

Mine is a sheikh, his is a Chinese mandarin, right?

- I also eat tangerines. - Yes? Do you eat tangerines?

- They're delicious, aren't they? - Lie down, Uze.

- Good bag. Can I take it? - Take it.

- Thank you. - Goodbye.

And Signora Santina?

- Who? - Paws.

She died.

And they wrote in the newspaper.

What's happened?

- He killed Nello. - Pimp.

He beat her and was jealous.

He's retarded. He killed her and confessed.

He's in prison. And rightly so.

How did you kill?

I'm trying to wash it off.

If it doesn't get cleaned up, the house won't be rented out.

I'll take it off.

Doesn't blood bother you?

No.

Thousand.

No. One thousand one hundred.

- Should I remove anything? - No no.

The house is yours. I'll come at the end of the month.

Sell ​​the house.

And come here. To Rome.

Friends are here.

Here I am.

Empress...

Mum! Mum!

From Patricia and me.

Thank you, beautiful ones!

How do you like her?

How's Patricia? Beautiful!

- We are unloading ten boxes. - Everything has been calculated. O.K.

Are you Nino from Rome?

- What is it? - Antonio is arrested.

- What for? - Robbery.

- What a penny-pincher, he also robs! - He told me to give you the dog.

- Which one? Bella? - Yes. He only thinks about her.

- She has puppies. - Where to go?

- To the Poggioreale prison. - Not to Antonio!

The dog is right there. He sits and doesn’t leave.

Will you pick it up? Otherwise they will be sent to a shelter.

Not a shelter!

- Nino! - I’ll be there in an hour, load it.

- Where are you going? We have two more flights. - I’ll be there for an hour, load it for now.

There are six more boxes to unload.

Look at him...

I am also Antonio, like your former master.

You can have Antonino, Nino, Ninuzzo.

I sold my motorcycle for you.

Let's run! Forward!

- What are you talking about, Remo? - He is right.

That only the party can continue the fight that we started.

- And that everyone needs to join it. - I don't believe them.

- I joined. - And rightly so!

The amnesty of Tolyatti is unacceptable!

We didn't fight for the church

and the rich to take over.

- Hello, Nino! - Hello, signora!

They've been sitting for two hours already.

Who are we to point to Tolyatti?

I understand that amnesty seems like a betrayal.

But this is not so, this is tactics, strategy!

Buddy!

Finally you are here.

I was in Naples on business. After.

We fought!

Fought to get rid of the Nazis, the fascists,

and where are they now? Take their positions!

"Togliatti knows everything. Togliatti will solve everything."

I would like your confidence!

You feel bad?

You are drunk?

Where do you live?

- Can you be quieter? - What?

- Take her away! - Calm down. And don't touch the dog.

- You can’t come here with her. - Who bit you?

See you.

Let's lay down our weapons and open our books.

Millions of deaths should have taught us something. So?

No?

- Nino! - Hurry up and run here, Uze!

- Nino! - Look who's here.

- Nino! - Hurry!

Nino!

- Who is this? - My dog's name is Bella.

Hello! Like Blitz, but more beautiful.

Wow, you remember the Blitz!

Let's go upstairs.

Here she is.

- Sit. - She already likes you.

She's hungry.

Listen, mum,

I have problems - the consequences of the war.

And I wanted to ask you, can I stay with you for a while?

- Can? - This is your home, Nino.

The bed has long been ready.

And here it is.

Your keys.

Mum, let's all sleep together!

- And Bella is with us in mum’s bed. - And Bella!

Are you both crazy?! No Bella.

- Together! - No!

Together!