Friends who have seen the movie "Bridge" may forget some plots with the passage of time, but most of the friends who have seen the movie can still recall the song "Ah Friends Goodbye" in the movie. The song "Ah Friends Goodbye" is a Chinese version of the Italian folk song "Bella ciao", and many people will wonder why the Partisans of Yugoslavia sang this Italian song. Generally speaking, songs such as those sung by guerrillas or regular troops are local original songs, and foreign songs will not be selected.
In 1941, Germany and the Italian army invaded Yugoslavia, and a large number of Yugoslavs who did not want to become slaves to the country enthusiastically participated in the guerrilla and German and Italian invaders, and Italy launched many unjust wars under Mussolini's rule, that is, a large number of troops were forced to be recruited to participate in the subsequent wars of aggression. A large number of soldiers in the Italian army were reluctant to throw themselves into the war of aggression, and at the same time the anti-Mussolini and fascist parties within Italy began to grow, and the Italian Communist Party was one of them.
Hitler and Mussolini
People often take Italy for granted, believing that the Performance of the Italian Army during World War II was unsatisfactory, with many laughable achievements. Jokes such as 20,000 Italian soldiers surrendering to a Parachuted Allied pilot. The weak combat effectiveness of the Italian army is a factor, in fact, there is also a reason for the Italian guerrillas.
Germany sent special forces to rescue Mussolini
When Italy surrendered in 1943 and Mussolini was deposed and imprisoned, Italy's newly formed cabinet favored the Allies, who promised Italy some conditions, such as ensuring Italy's safety after a successful landing and preventing the Germans from attacking Italy again. Seeing this situation, Germany was also more anxious, and immediately sent special forces to rescue Mussolini, and Germany immediately retaliated against Italy, sending Rommel the Fox of the Desert to begin to mobilize troops to attack Rome, and the army entered italy quickly. Soon, the Germans occupied most of Italy. And re-established Mussolini's government as a puppet regime.
The Germans attackEd Italy
The Italian Communist Party decided to revolt at such a juncture, and at the same time established an armed force, a large number of Italians participated in the guerrillas to participate in the anti-fascist battle, just in these two years, the Italian guerrillas fought more than 6,000 battles, the total strength exceeded 200,000 people, the results of the battle were also relatively brilliant, annihilated 160,000 German troops, destroyed more than 270 fighters, and also paid great sacrifices themselves, with losses of more than 70,000 people. With the defeat of Germany, Mussolini was eventually captured by Italian partisans and subsequently executed in public. The Italian song "O Friend Goodbye" was composed during this period, and the simple and beautiful melody was soon sung among the Italian guerrillas and folks.
Italian guerrillas
The Italian army that invaded Yugoslavia provided a large number of weapons and equipment to the Partisans after the surrender, many former Italian soldiers directly joined the Yugoslav Partisans led by Tito, the northeast region of Italy and yugoslavia bordered, the italian communist party and the Yugoslav communist party had very frequent contacts, at that time there were many Italians who joined the Yugoslav partisans, and "Ah friends goodbye" The song also spread to the Partisans of Yugoslavia (the Partisans' Glensi division and Togliatti division had a large number of members of the Italian Communist Party) and the demolitionist in the movie "Bridge" was an Italian Communist.
Stills from Zawadoni and Mobilino in The Bridge
The lyrics of "Ah Friends Goodbye" are full of revolutionary optimism, its values are in line with every communist and anti-fascist fighter, for the Yugoslav guerrilla fighters at that time this song is stateless, "Ah Friends Goodbye" was also loved by The Partisans of Yugoslavia, once became a representative song of the Partisans of Yugoslavia, after World War II, it is still enduring, "Ah Friends Goodbye" appeared in the movie "Bridge" is a restoration of history.