FIRST HILL OF VISION
PICS FROM HISTORICAL FILM
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The film had a March movie festival premiere in Italy |
Mario Capecchi, future Nobel prize winner for medicine, was born in Italy to an American mother, poet and political activist (Haddock), who was arrested by the fascists in 1941 and subsequently interned in a German concentration camp. With that arrest, Mario (Jake Donald Crookes), at the age of five, begins a life that soon becomes wild, violent and
adventurous. When his mother miraculously finds him in 1947, both will begin a path of rebirth that will lead Mario, to use his own words, "from rags to riches". He won Nobel in 2007.
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Edward Holcroft and Laura Haddock play Capecchis parents |