On the day of memory comes on Rai 1 and RaiPlay a fiction in two parts to never forget the horror accomplished by the Nazis and what represented in our country the fascist regime. Morbo K is a dramatic miniseries set in September 1943 when after the fall of fascism, the Nazis occupied Italy starting the rafts of the Jews.
Produced by Fabula Pictures with Rai Fiction, directed by Francesco Patierno, the miniseries tells the story of the morbid story invented by the head of the Fatebenefratelli Giovanni Borromeo to save the Roman Jews from persecution. The name Morbo K refers to the Nazis Kesslering and Kappler. Morbo K is on Rai 1 and RaiPlay on 27 and 28 January in two evenings.
Morbo K la trama
Rome, September 1943. Kappler head of SS in Rome, threatens the Jewish community by asking for a gold tribute: 50 pounds for not being deported. A monstrous blackmail that some already suspect to be a fraud. While the Roman Jews are questioning what to do and how to put together in 24 hours the gold required by Kappler, Professor Prati, director of the Fatebenefratelli, the hospital that is two steps away from the ghetto, intuits the true intentions of the German colonel and manages to transfer some Jewish families to a special department, saving them in fact, from an atrocious destiny.
To prevent the Nazis from reaching Tiberin Island, the doctor has the brilliant idea of inventing a highly contagious virus that is spreading rapidly: it is the lethal “Morbo K” and whoever shows the symptoms must be isolated to avoid the epidemic. The stratagem for a while seems enough to keep Jews safe inside the island and Nazis remotely. Among the Jewish families dear to the director, there is also that of Silvia Calò, a young man with great artistic talent. Silvia almost immediately falls in love with Pietro Prestifilippo, a young assistant of Professor Prati, who reciprocates his feeling, despite being already promised to marry another girl to want family.
The bite on the Roman Jews of the ghetto, meanwhile, tightens more and more, the life of Peter and Silvia is linked to a thread, that of the Resistance, while Professor Prati and the Jews admitted in the K department must find a way of escape. On October 16, 1943, the fifty kilos of gold are already in the Nazi crates, but Kappler orders the same rake of the Jews of the ghetto thus contravening to the word given. The German soldiers manage to charge 1,259 people of the community on trains for lager and on a train there is also the Calò family. The fate of Silvia, Pietro and Professor Prati will be consumed in the last dramatic hours before that train leaves Rome.
Il cast
The idea of the series is by Hector Cabello Reyes, the subject and script of Fr. Exacoustos directed by Francesco Patierno.
Giacomo Giorgio è Pietro Prestifilippo
Vincenzo Ferrera è il prof. Prati
Marco Fiore è Marco Calò
Dharma Mangia Woods è Silvia Calò
Christoph Hulsen è il colonnello Kappler
Flavio Furino è il dottor. Sorani
Antoniello Fassari è Nonno Mosè
Le puntate di Morbo K
27 gennaio
Episode 1: Jewish Ghetto of Rome, 1943. The Calò family is panicked after the Commendatore Giacomo announces the Nazi ultimatum: delivery of 50 pounds of gold in 24 hours to avoid a massive deportation. While the family strips itself of its own possessions, a violent quarrel bursts, culminating in Victoria’s discovery of the clandestine relationship between her husband, James, and sister-in-law Sasà. To put an end to the fight, Giacomo simulates a heart attack, pushing young Silvia and the little Marcolino to rush to the Fatebenefratelli Hospital to call for help.
Here, Silvia meets the fascinating Dr. Pietro Prestifilippo, to whom she confides the gold drama required by the Ghetto. Meanwhile, the hospital director, Professor Matteo Prati, secretly meets a Resistance General, in an atmosphere of increasing terror and conspiracy. Pietro Prestifilippo, deeply disturbed by the situation, confronts Prati to find a way to rescue the Jewish community. And it is at this moment that the professor is caught by a saving idea.
Episode 2: The Nazi soldiers raid the Library of the Rabbinic College, where the ancient texts are confiscated and, in particular, the register with the addresses of Jewish families, including that of the Chaldeans. At the Fabenefratelli Hospital, in the meantime, Dr. Pietro Prestifilippo and Professor Prati refine the secret plan: to create the “K department” to hide the Jews, simulating a contagious disease with the use of scenic tricks. Peter reveals to Silvia the plan of the hospital, but, despite his exhortation, the family of Silvia refuses the refuge in the hospital. Meanwhile, however, Colonel Kappler received the list of Jewish addresses and fixed the preparations for the upcoming rake: Saturday, October 16, 1943.
Mercoledì 28
Episode 3: During the tragic gathering of 16 October 1943, the Nazis sealed the Ghetto and began deportation. Hidden, Silvia and Pietro attend the operation; The doctor convinces her to run to the Fatebenefratelli Hospital, where in view of an imminent inspection, Professor Prati warns Jews refugees in the K department that the success of the “Morbo K” fictitious depends on their ability to simulate the infection. Meanwhile, the Calò family receives the evacuation ticket with only twenty minutes notice. In a desperate act to save the life of the younger son, Ester manages to hide Marcolino before being loaded on the truck with Ugo and grandfather Moses. Peter fails in an attempt to free the Chaldeans, but he seizes the encrypted message of Esther who urges him to save Marcolino.
Episode 4: Colonel Kappler orders immediate inspection at the Fabenefratelli Hospital. Private Dannaeker, armed with a gas mask, enters the K department where the refugees Jews, led by the instructions of Peter and Silvia, stage the symptoms of the fictitious “Morbo K”. The soldier is terrified of the vision and retreats, allowing Prati’s plan of salvation to pass the test momentarily. But a new looming threat requires rapid evacuation and Dr. Sorani proposes a new and desperate stratagem to save refugees.
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