[NUCLEAR SIREN WAILING]
[MUSSOLINI AND HITLER SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]
1939 The Second World War breaks out. At its outbreak, Italy had declared "non belligeranza", justifying its own military unpreparedness.
The following year, however, the fall of six nations, gave Mussolini and the population the certainty of a blitzkrieg.
So on June 10, 1940 Mussolini announced that the fatal hour had come.
- "Prepare the weapons and prove...
...your perseverance!"
[CROWD CHEERING]
- "Your courage!"
- "Your quality!"
So begins the story of BRUNO SPOLADORE, Former Caporal Major of Border Guard.
TIME FOR CHANGE
- My date of birth? - (JAMES DAWSON): Yes.
January 31, 1923.
That was it.
I spent my childhood in France.
I went to school there, with my brother and my friends.
Near Paris.
- (JAMES DAWSON): The town was? - Gagny.
(JAMES DAWSON): How was life in France?
Italy was in poverty.
France was a rich country, instead.
Life was good.
Food was good.
There was--
There was a huge difference between Italy and France of 30 years.
When I lived there.
Then I moved here and I saw extreme poverty.
During my childhood I used to play many sports.
Football, Tennis...
Like everybody else back then.
Always right wing.
I became soldier in San Pietro del Carso.
And then I worked as Border Guard Soldier.
From there I moved to Yugoslavia.
I moved to France with my mother and my brothers.
And then we couldn't come back anymore because the passport couldn't be renewed.
For Italy declared war.
Political things, you know...
...and I stayed in Italy with my mother.
And those years, the 1939s...
...there was extreme poverty in Italy.
In France we would eat chocolate and many other things.
Here you would barely see it through binoculars.
- "You will offer the world enchanting landscapes..."
When the war broke out, I was soldier in Tarvisio in the province of Udine.
As soldier I did military raids in Yugoslavia.
It was war, wasn't it?
It wasn't like now, you know...
There were slovenian Partisans.
Were were against Yugoslavia.
I did cry that time.
I was about to be convicted of desertion.
I was wrong.
I lost all contacts, you know. I protected the flank of the Powerful.
And that time I was sent to execution.
The Commander absolved me.
I had to choose between going to concentration camps or enlisting with German soldiers.
I went to concentration camps at that time...
...and then I volunteered myself, you know. Either you die or choose.
I was an Italian prisoner.
Then there was a sort of separating wall.
There were many foreigners and French prisoners...
...soldiers and Black French people who happened to speak French as well.
I studied French too. I spoke it perfectly.
We approached them and asked for food. They had everything you needed.
We had nothing at all.
How miserable we were!
Well, I did suffer a lot there.
It was cold. I prayed God.
We would wake up early in the morning...
...we would sleep with only one miserable blanket on concrete.
Afterwards, we were sent to forced works.
Hitler, Mussolini, General Graziani...
...I saw them all.
[HITLER SPEAKING]
I saw many people die, I did.
I was very lucky to have survived.
A German Marshal -- At that time I was prisoner...
...from Meran...
...so...
...we used to have conversations with these German soldiers.
He knew that I came from South Tyrol...
...all these things, you know...
And consider this: he went on leave...
...he went to my mother...
...in Bruneck.
He gave her supplies and food for me.
And an Italian...
...she left from Bruneck and a Friulian idiot...
...she gave him cigarettes and I wasn't brought anything!
More than 472 thousand Italian soldiers died during World War 2. 68 Milion worldwide.
The following witness is from Mr. VALTER PIERESSA.
So, the story of my family is a little bit different compared to others...
...in the sense that my father was born in 1892...
and joined World War 1.
In 1913, he was only 21 and became soldier.
He joined the military for two years.
He was about to come home when the war broke out in 1915, remaining soldier.
He fought until 1918...
...and in the following year he hadn't come home yet because...
...at that time the poet Gabriele D'Annunzio occupied the City of Rijeka.
At a certain point, Italy sent their army where my father was in...
...to stop this. Italy disagreed with D'Annunzio's occupation...
...reason for which they sent the army there.
There my father met his first wife who was from Rijeka.
He met also his wife's father who, in the same war, he sided with the Austro-Hungarian soldiers.
I mean, my father was with the Italian soldiers of course, but his father-in-law was with the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
He was taken prisoner by Russians and he had recently returned from Russia.
Then, after this 8-year-long war which started from 1913 and ended in 1921...
...he came back home with this wife and made family here in Este...
...where the first son Enzo was born.
He joined, in turn, World War 2.
And as far as he was concerned he did like this:
he departed with the Italian army in 1940...
...and he got Lieutenant's degree.
As soon as he became Lieutenant, we lost the war in 1943.
Therefore he, not wanting to go against Italians during the Italian Social Republic of Salò,
he went to Former Yugoslavia at that time...
...and there he joined the Partisan War for a few months.
It took place in the Former Yugoslavia.
Then, thanks to a stroke of luck, he managed to move to Bari.
He moved there in 1944. It was meanwhile...
...freed by the British.
There were British there and he became part of the English army.
And he fought until the end with the English army.
Essentially, he started as an Italian soldier, then partisan and eventually as English soldier.
Quite complicated story.
(JAMES DAWSON): War is over.
Well...
We were happy but exhausted.
Leaving all those years far from home without seeing your parents.
Food was disgusting and it was hard to sleep.
Being of a certain age, I thought about starting a family.
In my youth I was a well-mannered man.
I wasn't stupid, neither.
I used to have girls around me.
After the war, I had come home so I started to visit my uncles.
Especially my uncle Sisto who lived at the corner of the street.
He worked at the Town Hall.
I used to visit him and I eventually met my wife.
That's it.
It wasn't as simple as today, though.
You had to be determined to ask her parents for marriage.
I was asking her to marry me...
...and eventually we got married.
Having had this terrible past both my father in World War 1...
...and my brother in World War 2...
...I then kept the relationships with in-laws relatives from Rijeka.
This relationship I had within my city...
...since the Twinning Committee arose...
...I dedicate myself to this city...
...having made more friends due to events that I explained before.
So, when we remembered the beginning of World War 1 in Italy in 1915...
...In 2015...
...a hundred years later, of course, when remembered this war.
And as Twinning Committee...
...we made this poster with this attached timetable.
I was pleased that the Twinning Committee chose this particular picture.
This picture reminds my father who was Sergeant Major with his platoon...
...photographed in a moment - I can't remember when - before the war in 1915/1918.
It hadn't been a long time since we moved here.
This picture was taken...
...where we're living right now.
This is a country porch.
Animals used to live there.
We had lot of things.
This one was taken...
by the old sawmill where we worked.
At that time they had built the new one.
We eventually had a party in the new sawmill.
This picture shows only a small part of the huge building.
There was a small lake where trunks flowed.
Then you would push the button for the chain to come up and set the trunks.
We had three of these machines.
There was also a Fallgatter.
With 6/7 blades it would cut the trunk at a time.
This is the house where we're living right now.
We began to restore it.
We put heating.
We renovated the fireplace.
That is what we did.
As said, we're living here right now.
This is my wife.
She lived in this house.
There she is.
As we got married we moved to Bruneck.
In Bruneck we built this other house.
I built this house.
We still own it today.
It was still under construction.
That's it.
I lived here for...
...20 years.
We took this picture by my daughter's house.
My grandchildren.
Here, my parents celebrated golden wedding.
Together with this couple.
They came from Megliadino San Vitale.
They're no longer here.
My mother and my father.
This is my daughter.
This is my son.
He likes to travel.
- Was he in Paris? - (JAMES DAWSON): He was.
He was in Paris.
They lived in Bruneck and then came back here.
She built her house.
My daughter.
As for my son...
...he lived in Bruneck and then moved here.
This picture was taken after the war here in Este.
This is the former fascist house.
Veterans of the war were remembered.
The war took place in...
...Ethiopia.
It was a memory. All the veterans gathered.
I lived in a little house for rent in the woods.
I was with my whole family.
Anyway, I started working.
I worked at the company called "Colleoni". Very majestic company.
About timber.
I met the director and everyone loved me.
I was a well-behaved and reasonable man.
Not like those lazybones.
I was a competent person.
After that, the director who supervised about 100 workers...
...greeted and esteemed me.
The executive as well.
He grew very fond of me, though.
After they had built the most modern sawmill in Europe...
...I was sent to Germany.
The reason was because I was prepared.
I understood things.
I wasn't a fool.
I understood everything.
I stayed in Germany for two weeks.
All expenses paid: sleep, food...
The son of the director was there once.
I said: "Good Morning Mr. Cesare."
(CESARE): "Good Morning, Bruno. Would you please come here?"
He said: "Would you like to work in the workshop?"
(BRUNO): "Listen, Mr. Cesare. It's always been my passion but...
...I've never been lucky in my life."
(CESARE): "Take your staff and get into the workshop!"
I then became the king of the world.
- (JAMES DAWSON): You built our house in Bruneck, did you? - I did.
Actually I paid it, but I ordered the construction.
I did.
- (JAMES DAWSON): You were involved in a film, right? - I was.
A film about work.
Yes.
It was filmed in a week.
The whole company was involved.
I was in it.
The crew filmed how we worked...
...how we made teeth, we used Stellite...
...and welded everything together.
That was my job.
In the workshop.
- Where did we film that? I can't remember. - (JAMES DAWSON): We were in the studio.
- I portrayed the President of the Republic? - (JAMES DAWSON): Exactly.
Unfortunately, I don't remember that anymore.
With Merio?
We used to go mushrooming.
We would walk for 5/6/7 hours.
Always going up in the mountains.
On Saturdays and Sundays.
And when we came home we would have baskets of mushrooms.
Especially Porcino mushrooms.
And immediately we would sell them.
We were well paid.
Yes.
Mushrooms and we would cut woods after the war.
We used to eat polenta cooked on the grill.
On the grill.
We would go up and did 8 kilometres along the mountain with our bikes.
And then we would walk for an hour to go to into the woods.
We would eat on a stump in which there was a hole.
We turned the fire on and toasted the polenta.
We would eat and then make a 8/10-hour-long walk in the mountains.
Recently, Mr. Bruno Spoladore watched Steven Spielberg's movie masterpiece: "Schindler's List" (1993), winner of 7 Academy Awards.
[SERGEANTS CHECKING JEWS]
I went to the concentration camp.
We were treated like an object.
[SCHINDLER'S LIST THEME PIANO PLAYING]
[BIRDS TWITTERING]
"Whoever saves one life saves the world entire." - from "Schindler's List"
Bruno Spoladore was at war for 3 years.
Forced to works in concentration camps for 223 days, 7 months.
Eating Tapioca, a plant native to South America.
He lives in Megliadino San Fidenzio (PD) with his two children: Gabriella and Ruggero.
The house is the same of 95 years ago. He lives with his son Ruggero, his daughter-in-law and his two grandchildren Giacomo and Filippo.
Directed by JAMES DAWSON
Produced by JAMES DAWSON EUGENIA RUZZANTE
Based on the documentary "The longest day" (2016) by JAMES DAWSON
BRUNO SPOLADORE and VALTER PIERESSA
TIME FOR CHANGE
Executive producer JAMES DAWSON
Director of Photography JAMES DAWSON
Editor JAMES DAWSON
Production and Costume Designer SABRINA SPAZIAN
#2 Camera Operator and Photographer JACOPO BATTISTELLA
1° Assistant Director FILIPPO SPOLADORE
Music by YOUTUBE LIBRARY
Two couples celebrate diamond wedding
a DAWSON FILMS presentation
in association with ÉMOTIONS ROYALES Ent.
and in association with HISTORIA REALY Documentary
a JAMES DAWSON production
a documentary by JAMES DAWSON
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