Al di là delle frontiere

«Beyond the boundaries», a TV miniseries, represents a real story between a German soldier and an Italian partisan. It symbolizes the strength of love that overcomes any human difference. Johannes Brandrup and Sabrina Ferilli are interpreters fascinating the public by means of their various alternate feelings starting from opposite parties; Hans Wiedemann (Johannes Brandrup), the German officer fighting in Italy during the second world war, falls in love with a young Italian partisan played by Sabrina Ferilli. She is lead slowly, step by step, to love Hans, attracted to follow his unconstrained passion. Through them even the war becomes a way to develop human feelings, to create living hopes. It is an occasion for a fire of love in a fire of bombs and destruction. Among the ruins, in the uncertainty of a future, love wins everything, wins the war itself. The war is not more powerful than the conscience of being a man and a woman that never forget their human kind.

"Al di là delle Frontiere" which is based on a true story, tells the story of an Italian woman (Ferilli) who works the Italian partisans, she loaths the fascists and their German allies. Due to a strange twist of destiny she meets a German officer (Brandrup) who is not a nazi but a man with the heart of a true romantic, the two fall in love but can they survive the war between them? The film rises above the average TV-film and although the story may sound like a "harlequin"-style kiosk stuff don't be fooled.

The casting is a success, both lead roles are well played, Ferilli especially is wonderful as the woman torn between her allegiances. Quality drama.