My Italian Secret-The forgotten heroes

A film by Oren Jacoby with the narrator's Isabella Rossellini, presented as a special event at the opening of International Film Festival of Rome, next Thursday 16 October at 20:30 in room Petrassi, on the occasion of the commemoration of the 71th anniversary of the roundup of the Ghetto of Rome.
Plot
My Italian Secret tells the story of the cyclist Gino Bartali, the physician Giovanni Borromeo and other Italians who worked secretly to save Jews and fugitives from the Nazis during the Second World War. Bartali, the winner of the Tour de France 1938, made hundreds of trips carrying false documents in his bike. Dr. Borromeo invented a nonexistent disease to scare the SS and keep them away from the hospital on Tiber Island where it hid Jews.
My Italian Secret following the return to Italy of the survivors who tell their stories and thank the people who gave their lives to save strangers.

My Italian Secret- The forgotten heroes
Documentary film with:
Andrea Bartali, Riccardo Pacifici, Peter Borromeo, Gaia Servadio, Charlotte Hauptman, Piero Terracina, Ursula Korn Selig, Ugo Sciamanno, Mercedes Virgili, Grace Viterbi, Giorgio Goldenberg, Wanda Lattes, Suor Benedetta
Narrator of Isabella Rossellini. U.S. 2014, 92 my.