The Heart in the Well (2005)

Name: The Heart in the Well
Released: 2005-02-06

1h 40m

Running Time

Plot.

Istria, 1944. A small community is shaken by the entry of Tito's partisans. Novak, his commander, is a man who years ago had a child with a local woman and now houses the secret intention of finding them. But Giulia, the mother of the child, will hide him in the orphanage who runs Mr. Bruno, the local priest. But Novak does not give up, so I Bruno decides to take him away, starting a chase up to the Italian borders.

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Details.

Release Date
February 6, 2005

Original Name
Il cuore nel pozzo

Status
Released

Running Time
1h 40m

Last updated: 2025-02-10

Wiki.

Il Cuore nel Pozzo (Italian for The heart in the pit; often reported in Croatian media with the translation Srce u jami and in Slovene Srce v breznu) is a TV movie, produced by state broadcaster RAI, that focuses on the escape of a group of children from Tito's partisans in the aftermath of World War II, as they start an ethnic cleansing of all Italians from Istria and the Julian March. The word "pit" in the movie's title refers to a foiba, indicating foibe massacres.

The movie was watched by 17 million people on its first broadcast in Italy. It was the first time that a major TV event was broadcast in Italy about the dramas of Foibe and Istrian Exodus.