The Children's Train (2024) on Netflix
In 1946 Naples, seven-year-old Amerigo has never left the streets he shares with his mother Antonietta. When the postwar trains of happiness carry poor southern children north, he boards one.
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Plot summary
1946. Amerigo is seven years old and has never left Naples and his mother Antonietta. His world, made up of streets and poverty, however, is about to change. On board one of the "trains of happiness" he will spend the winter in the north, where a young woman, Derna, will welcome him and take care of him. Next to her Amerigo acquires an awareness that leads him to a painful choice that will change her life forever. It will take him many years to discover the truth: those who love you don't hold you back, but they let you go.
Cast
- Lucio Moranoas Luzio
- Jacopo Pagano Guerrierias Rivo
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Children's Train (2024)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- The film is set against the real treni della felicità initiative, in which the Italian Communist Party sent poor children from southern Italy to live with families in the north in the years after World War II.
