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depression, leading her to stay longer than originally planned. After a long phase of treatment, and thanks to the psychotherapist Barrie
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After leaving London in order to collect her film prize in Cannes, Mazzetti returned to Italy for a while. She wished to see her twin sister, who in the meantime had given birth to a daughter. However back in Italy she became haunted by the tragic murder of her adopted family and fell into a deep
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was also written by Denis Horne, but he left the production because of a disagreement with the director, who did not want to incorporate his long dialogues in the recording. The montage works, guided by
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is written in a narrative style of a child and from a child's perspective with the war described from the viewpoint of a child, who is in love with Gesuâ, the Duce and its adoptive uncle. It is a tragic but also a comical book. Worried that the tone of her story could offend the memory of the
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introduced to the world of the workers for the first time. Unfortunately, this venture was judged as too risky by the communist partyâmeaning that
Lorenza had to renounce any hope of working with Italian broadcasting station Rai, even though a minor collaboration had already started there.
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in schools. She wanted to talk with young people in order to keep the memory of the
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Later in her life, Mazzetti developed a career as a painter, which culminated in two exhibitions: "The Album di famiglia" with 80 paintings illustrating the events described in the novel
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