A mother, two sons, and a war that devours everything but love.
Season 1 • Episode 3
LatestThe story of the half-Jewish Ida Raimundo and her two sons Antonio and Giuseppe in Rome, during and immediately after the Second World War.
Acting
Claudia Cardinale's haunted maternal silence.
Direction
Comencini's unflinching wartime intimacy.
Cinematography
Rome's ruins as character, not backdrop.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on Elsa Morante's novel, banned by the Vatican for its raw depiction of Catholic complicity in Jewish persecution. Comencini fought RAI for years to adapt it.
Lambert Wilson plays twin brothers—one fascist, one Resistance—forcing viewers to confront how ideology fractures blood.
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