He could hear their animated voices as one, a chorus of the street – women laughing at some small joy, children crying at some minor tragedy, men arguing over nothing but the sheer Italian love of verbal battle and mock outrage.īut Pino’s world drastically changes when he goes to see You Were Never Lovelier with Fred Astaire and Rita Hayworth at the picture show, and the theater is bombed. The wealthy and fashionable of Milan hurried toward home.
Pino jumped off the bed, kicked off his shoes, and started dancing, seeing himself with beautiful Anna doing a crazy Lindy Hop – no war, no Nazis, only music, and food, and wine, and love. The beginning of the German occupation of Milan is just a backdrop to his carefree life as the son of well-known purse-makers. Pino is a normal teenaged boy, interested in nice clothes and beautiful girls.
Based on a true story, Beneath a Scarlet Sky chronicles the life of seventeen-year-old Pino Lella during the last two years of the war. Mark Sullivan takes us into the little-publicized world of the Italian Resistance during World War II.
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