Dolina miru

Young Lotti, a girl of German descent, and the Slovenian boy Marko, both orphans, flee the bombed-out city. The black US pilot Jim saves himself by parachute after his fighter plane was shot down. The three of them are looking for the mystical valley of peace, in which Marko's uncle supposedly leads a quiet life on an idyllic farm. All the while they are pursued by the SS and the German Wehrmacht. Leading actor John Kitzmiller himself participated in the liberation of Italy as a US soldier and did not return to his racially segregated homeland after the end of the war. In Italy his acting talents were discovered and he subsequently featured in works of neorealism. The Slovenian Film Center restored and digitised this film in 2016. In the same year it was screened once again at Cannes Classics. NaF