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About the Film | ||
For the past six years, University of Texas Radio, Television and Film Professor Nancy Schiesari has recorded the testimonies of twenty Italian American veterans and Partisans three of whom have subsequently passed away. The necessity to document the testimonies of the war generation is magnified by the fact that current and future generations are about to lose all first hand accounts by the participants themselves. These events will be chronicled and re-interpreted in history books and films of the future, but if their protagonists are not allowed to tell their own stories, valuable material will be lost. The scope of this project goes beyond creating an archive of stories by Italian Americans. Showing positive examples of bravery by an ethnic minority that has been repeatedly maligned as cowardly or criminal is in itself a worthwhile endeavor. The history of the struggle for democracy that Americans carry into this new millennium would benefit from acknowledging those who sacrificed, suffered emotional and physical loss, and risked their lives to defeat Hitler and Mussolini. |
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