Through examining Fini Straubinger, an old woman who has been deaf and blind since her teens, and her work on behalf of other deaf-blind people, this film shows how the deaf-blind struggle to understand and accept a world from which they are almost wholly isolated.

Rose Island

2020

Italian

7.0

♡ 9

75%

74%

Action

Adventure

based on a true story

political instability

politics

struggle for independence

Sydney Sibilia Director

Matilda De Angelis as Gabriella

Joshua Takacs as Island Goer

Andrea Pennacchi as Ulisse Rosa

Tom Wlaschiha as W.R. Neumann

In 1968, engineer Giorgio Rosa established the independent state called "The Isle of Roses" off the coast of Rimini, built on a platform outside the territorial waters, with Esperanto as the official language. The Italian authorities did not take it well because the micronation was seen as an expedient to not pay taxes on the revenues obtained thanks to the arrival of numerous tourists and curious people.

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Land of Silence and Darkness

Rose Island