Film Commission Torino Piemonte

Through the incredible love story between a Russian Jew and an Italian officer, the story of an unknown episode of the Second World War. Between June 1940 and September 1943 the Italian army occupied several French departments. In a short time, Central European Jews flocked to the Italian area where they feel most secure. It is a refuge sheltered from the Germans and Vichy. About a thousand of them arrive in Saint-Martin-Vésubie, in the Maritime Alps, and are sentenced to house arrest by the Italian authorities. Suddenly Russian, Romanian, Polish or Yiddish are spoken in this mountain village. In the huts you can improvise a school and a synagogue, at night you dance in the barns after the curfew, you bathe in the mountain lakes, you study, you pick fruits and mushrooms, you do theater or boxing. And you fall in love ... Protected by Italian soldiers, this small Jewish community manages to escape the Nazi deportations, until the armistice when everything changes...