A Roma non ci sono le montagne

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Rome, 1944. In the Nazi-occupied city, we witness the audacity and the story of a group of young partisans who choose to live, love and resist in order to build peace.

An emotional education in struggle and rebellion, the story of the attack in Via Rasella, one of the most emblematic episodes of the Italian Resistance.

In an occupied Rome in 1944, a group of young partisans organise a brave action that will change the course of the war in the capital. Via Rasella, an anonymous street in the city centre, becomes the stage of a fierce clash between dictatorship and resistance.

It’s a risky plan that involves striking a column of German soldiers, the symbol of Nazi power, and sow chaos among the occupying forces. Those few metres, those few seconds, followed by hours of trepidation, waiting, uncertainty and patience, rigour and chance, become part of history. As do the stories of the young people, mostly from the middle classes, often university students, who form the Groups of Patriotic Action, founded a few months earlier against the German occupier.

On that brief – and endless – spring afternoon, there are those who get ready and those who are caught unawares, those who die and those who survive, those who run away and those who return. The attack, brilliantly carried out, unleashes a ruthless revenge that leads to reprisals of devastating proportions: for every German soldier killed, ten Italians will be murdered in Fosse Ardeatine.