The true story, little known until now, of Elena Colombo, a Jewish girl from Turin who, in 1943, was separated from her parents at the age of 10 and deported alone to Auschwitz: the only documented case in the entire Italian Shoah. The story is told through the eyes of two young protagonists, Cecilia and Fabrizio (played by Mariandrea Cesari and Emanuele Casati), who live in Turin today and reconstruct the story of Elena and her parents from an old family photograph…

Production
Stand by me

screenplay

Simona Ercolani
Serena Cervoni
Tancredi Maria Anzalone

animated inserts
Lynx Multimedia Factory

producers Lynx
Evelina Poggi
Sabrina Callipari

design
Angela Conigliaro

storyboard
Michela Signoracci Giulia Misseri

storyboard supervisor
Enrico Paolantonio

Animation supervisor
Claudio Bruni

directed by
Raffaele Androsiglio

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