Film screening "Resistance" - Commemoration for Memorial Day 2025

On Tuesday 28 January at 17:30, on the occasion of Holocaust Memorial Day 2025, the film ‘Resistance’ will be screened at the Cinema Rossini.
The event is organised in collaboration with the Municipality of Venice, the Italian Office of the Council of Europe, the Associazione Figli della Shoah, Circuito Cinema and Europe Direct.
The Italian See of the Council of Europe and the Associazione Figli della Shoah through this film will try to deepen the relations between childhood and Shoah.

 

Greetings by: Mario Schwetz, Italian See of the Council of Europe, and Marina Scarpa Campos, Vice President Associazione Figli della Shoah and a representative of the Municipality of Venice.

 

SYNOPSIS
A film from 2020, directed by Jonathan Jakubowicz, it tells the story of Marcel Marceau, a famous mime, who together with his brother and a group of other young people join the French resistance to fight the German invasion of France, fighting in particular against the persecution of Klaus Barbie, the executioner of Lyon, an officer of the Schutzstaffel and at the time commander of the Gestapo in the French capital.

 

 

Cinema Rossini
Address: Salizzada de la Chiesa o del Teatro, 3997, 30124 Venezia VE

 

The event must be booked in advance and is free while places last. Booking link: https://forms.gle/Pay6BDQwfzbB2YZJA