Film Commission Torino Piemonte

Six brothers and sisters meet up in order to build a bike.
While putting it together, the playful atmosphere allows them to share their memories about their father, Angelo.
Angelo, my grandfather, was imprisoned in the Bergen Belsen concentration camp during the 2nd World War.
After a year, he was miraculously selected by a German family as a slave, in order to work in their farm. Angelo became really close to the 11 years old kid of the family, Edmund. The two were inseparable, like two brothers. One day they decided to build a bike from scratch, using abandoned material.
The bike will be used eventually by Angelo to escape from Germany and come back home, in Italy, 1500 km away.
Fifteen years later, Edmund finally manages to contact his old Italian friend. They meet up together, with their families, and stay friends until Angelo’s death, in 1999.
The project presents also another reunion, this time between one of Angelo’s son, Moreno (my father) and Uwe, Edmund’s son.
Moreno leaves Mantova to arrive to Minden, in Germany, following the journey that his father did by bike many years before.
The reunion with Uwe is intense, past and present meet and cross, their babelian conversation has its own logic, they understand each other even without speaking the same language.
Many old videos, pictures and letters come back to life. Meanwhile, in Italy, the bike is finally completed, ready to spin around the quite countryside.