On March 23, 1944, the Patriotic Action Groups attacked a German police column in Via Rasella.
On March 24, in retaliation, the Nazis killed 335 people in a quarry on the Via Ardeatina. On March 25, the words of the Nazis appear in the newspapers of Rome, announcing both the action of the partisans and the massacre that followed.
Twentyyears after his debut, Ascanio Celestini returns to the stage of Radio Clandestina, a very successful show that made him known to the general public. A text that tells and reflects on history and memory, starting from one of the most tragic events of the Nazi occupation in Italy: the massacre of the Ardeatine Ditches.
"The story of the partisan struggle and the occupation of Rome is often reported in a confused way – writes Ascanio Celestini –. Above all, the massacre of the Fosse Ardeatine and the action of via Rasella that preceded it are part of a story told "in reverse". Starting from the materials published in the book by Alessandro Portelli The Order has already been executed, in Radio Clandestina I give voice to that oral part of the story that still tells those days in a lively, direct and not inverted way ".
