Shoah From Giffoni To Rai The Film About Edith Eva Eger

Milan, January 23, 2019 (askanews): "Edith, a Dancer in Hell," a documentary about the life of Hungarian dancer Edith Eva Eger, who escaped the Nazi concentration camps, airs on Rai. The documentary had its world premiere at the Giffoni Film Festival, where Edith Eva Eger received the Impact Award. The movie, which was created by Violet Moon and MoKa, will air during prime time on Rai Scuola on Memorial Day, which falls on Friday, January 27, at 8 o'clock.

The movie, which is loosely based on Edith Eva Eger's memoir, was created by Emanuele Turelli (the book's author and screenwriter), Marco Zuin (the director), and Lorenzo Pezzano (the photographer). It stars marco cortesi and Mara Moschini, who are both well-known to the public from the films "Ruanda," "Il muro," and the television series "Green Storyteller," respectively, as the film's main actors. Claudia Ziliani, the executive producer of Violet Moon, and Riccardo Viviani, the organization director of Violet Moon, came up with the concept of turning the life of the young Edith into a movie.

The movie follows the struggles of a sixteen-year-old Hungarian girl (now 95 and the author of the best-selling book "Edith's Choice"), beginning with racial segregation in Nazi-occupied Hungary and continuing through persecution for her beliefs and ideologies until her arrest in 1944. prior to being transported to Auschwitz, a concentration camp.

From the "free" life and a childhood spent between ballet barres and point chalk, to the happenings of an increasingly difficult adolescence. The conditions ranged from the squalor of a shack in Birkenau's women's section to the desire to perform at the Budapest Opera.

From the carefree existence of a dreamy young child to the death marches, up until the moment of liberation, which for Edith and her sister Magda will miraculously arrive in a subcamp of Mauthausen, when they were extracted from a pile of corpses by two American soldiers on May 4, 1945. Due to Edith's love of dance, the only way to attain the status of a human being, she will be able to save herself and her group of deportees.

With the help of that passion, the lead character (played by seventeen-year-old Viola Turelli, a dancer making her film debut), who is Mengele's (Romeo Tofani) dreadful opponent, will muster the courage to dance in front of him, obtaining more food for herself and her companions. The original soundtrack (written by Daniele Gozzetti) recreates the sounds and ambiances of the so-called "Orchestra of Auschwitz," which operated in the concentration camp of occupied Poland from 1941 to 1945.

"In the theater as well as in the movies, we can tell many exciting and effective stories, but the ones that are really worth telling are the true stories that can help to improve the world of those who listen to or see them, and Edith's is a story with these characteristics, said Emanuele Turelli. It is the significant contribution that artists from all disciplines make to the realm of memory and the development of social structures in societies.

The general director of the festival, Jacopo Gubitosi, said, "I am pleased that the Day of Remembrance is commemorated with a film presented and honored in Giffoni. It is also a source of pride for our Impact!, which was the first to recognize the value and significance of this film by bestowing Edith with the most prestigious award of this section. Following the festival, the success that the piece received from the press and critics was significant, not least because it was able to air during prime time on Rai Scuola, a goal that affirms the reliability of the piece in which we had already put our faith.