Anita B.

Anita B. is a 2014 Italian drama film directed by Roberto Faenza. It is loosely based on the 2009 autobiographic novel Quanta stella c'è nel cielo (How Many Stars Twinkle in the Sky) by Edith Bruck. Plot It is 1945, World War II has just ended, and Anita, a 16-year-old Hungarian Jewish girl who survived Auschwitz but was orphaned, is taken in by her paternal aunt Monika in Zvíkovské, Czechoslovakia. Anita now lives with her aunt, her uncle Aron, their infant son Roby, and Eli, Aron's brother and then Monika's brother-in-law in a house confiscated by the Czechoslovak government from Germans expelled from the country after the war. But Anita is immediately treated coldly by Monika, who forbids her to talk about her experience in the concentration camp. She is also forbidden to leave the house, as the girl is undocumented. Nevertheless, invited by her aunt and uncle who trust in the confusion, she attends a party one evening. Here two policemen, realizing that she is a Hungarian, discover that she is not in good standing and arrest her. Imprisoned, she is freed when, a few days later, she obtains her papers.