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A documentary film. Three Italian doctors from Fatebenefratelli hospital in Rome (near the Vatican) rescued Jews during the Holocaust by using the conceit of a horrific, highly contagious disease that wasn't real. In the middle of World War II, during the Nazi occupation of Rome, three Italian doctors saved the lives of many Jews by convinced the Nazis that certain Jewish patients in their hospital were infected with a deadly disease they called Syndrome K. But Syndrome K never existed. It was completely fictitious . The doctors made it, ironically, the one horrible disease in human history that actually...

Director : Stephen Edwards

Production Year : 2019

Duration : 80

Language : Italian

We Weren´t Given Anything For Free

סרט תיעודי. סרט דוקומנטרי. הסרט עוקב אחר האירועים הדרמטיים בחייהם של הפרטיזנים האיטלקים לשעבר, אניטה מלבסי, ושני חבריה, פירינה בונילורי וג'ינה מונציגולי. הסרט הזה הוא על ההתנגדות האיטלקית במלחמת העולם השנייה, מנקודת המבט של הנשים האלה

Director : Eric Esser

Production Year : 2014

Duration : 59

Language : Italian

My Italian Secret - The Forgotten Heroes

Would you risk your life to save a stranger? And never talk about it? My Italian Secret tells the story of Italian sports idol Gino Bartali and other Italians who saved Jews and refugees fleeing the Nazis in WWII. Bartali, the Tour de France champion, risked his life hundreds of times, transporting documents for a secret underground organization. This is one of many stories of thousands of Italians who risked their lives to save others from capture and death. As an entire continent was engulfed in a genocide which took the lives of most Jews in Nazi occupied Europe (nearly 6 million people), more than 80 percent...

Director : Oren Jacoby

Production Year : 2014

Duration : 92

Language : English, Italian