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Events from the year1944 in Italy.
Northern Italy is formally ruled by theMussolini’sItalian Social Republic. The effective power in Italy was in the hands of the German and allied occupiers.
From spring to autumn, severalfree republics were constituted by the Italian partisans (particularlyOssola), but they had all fallen to the Germans and fascists by the end of the year.
In the freed Italy, the first cultural magazines inspired to the antifascist beliefs appear :Aretusa,Mercurio,La nuova Europa andRinascita (official review of thePCI). In Florence,Italia e Civiltà, voice of the more moderate fascist wing, goes out for a few months.
In spite of the tragic war situation, a fair number of new Italian movies, generally realized before thearmistice, goes out in cinemas, (Sorelle Materassi, byPoggioli;The innkeeper, byChiarini ;La donna della montagna, byCastellani). A limited film production goes on North Italy.Vivere ancora, began byLeo Longanesi in Rome the last year, is completed in Turin byFrancesco de Robertis. In Venice, the authorities of theItalian Social Republic try to establish a newCinecittà, calledCinevillaggio but the studios realize only a dozen of movies, of poor artistic value. In Rome,Vittorio De Sica directsThe gates of heaven, produced by theVatican. The processing of the movie, protracted for seven months, allows many antifascists, as De Sica himself, to wait in relative tranquility for theliberation of the city.
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