As part of the programme marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre, in partnership with the Italian Cultural Institute, invites you to a screening of The Shadow of the Day (L’Ombra del Giorno).

About the Film

Set in Fascist Italy, the film tells a quiet but gripping love story unfolding in a time of growing danger. Luciano, a restaurant owner and supporter of the regime—like the vast majority of Italians of the period—believes he can live according to his own rules, insulated from the political turmoil beyond his doors.

As ominous signs gather in the ancient square outside his restaurant, a young woman named Anna appears, carrying a secret. When she is hired to work there, Luciano’s carefully controlled world begins to unravel. From that moment on, nothing is the same. Alongside the external threats closing in, he must confront the greatest danger of all: love.

Tender and tense, The Shadow of the Day is a love story set against the moral compromises and uncertainties of a dark historical moment.