1944 in Italy


Events from the year 1944 in Italy were tumultuous, during which was the heaviest fighting in World War II in Italy.

Incumbents

Northern Italy was formally ruled by Mussolini’s Italian Social Republic. though real power was held by the German and Allied occupying forces.
From spring to autumn, several free republics were constituted by the Italian partisans, but they had all fallen to the Germans and fascists by the end of the year.

Events

Literature and culture

L'Adalgisa
In the freed Italy, the first cultural magazines inspired to the antifascist beliefs appear : Aretusa, Mercurio, La nuova Europa and Rinascita. In Florence, Italia e Civiltà, voice of the more moderate fascist wing, goes out for a few months.

Cinema

In spite of the war situation, a large number of new Italian movies, generally realized before the armistice, goes out in cinemas,. A limited film production goes on North Italy. Vivere ancora, began by Leo Longanesi in Rome the last year, is completed in Turin by Francesco de Robertis. In Venice, the authorities of the Italian Social Republic try to establish a new Cinecittà, called Cinevillaggio but the studios realize only a dozen of movies, of poor artistic value. In Rome, Vittorio De Sica directs The gates of heaven, produced by the Vatican. The processing of the movie, protracted for seven months, allows many antifascists, as De Sica himself, to wait in relative tranquility for the liberation of the city.

Births

Deaths