Bella ciao (2000)

• 70%
• 2000
• Drama
• Isabelle Carré
• Jacques Gamblin
• Yaël Abecassis

A man struggles to support his family while remaining true to his ideals, in this drama set in Europe during the 1930s. Orpheus Mancini and his wife In are a pair of working-class Italians who years ago swore allegiance to the Communist party. With Mussolini on the rise, Orpheus and In to the conclusion that they are no longer welcome in their native land, and they decide to pull up stakes and move to America with their two children. As a result of some confusion en route, the Mancinis end up in Marseilles rather than the United States; needing work -, Orpheus takes a job working as a manual laborer for a wealthy landowner. This requires a serious amount of pride-swallowing on Orfeo' ' s part, since his new boss is an German expatriate who once courted In. The situation becomes all the more difficult for Orpheus when his employer throws his loyalitäten behind the growing fascist movement.