Is it true that the mother of Marcello Mastroianni hid her Jewish origin?

In the Russian -language segment of the network, information is popular that the mother of the famous Italian actor is Minsk resident Ida Idelson, who moved to Italy in early childhood. We checked the reliability of this information.

According to the publications, the mother of Marcello Mastroianni Ida Iroll (officially born in 1898 in the town of Arpino between Rome and Napopol), shortly before her death, admitted to her father Mastroianni, who was the daughter of Minsk bourgeois of Jewish origin of Moses and Malka Idelson. She allegedly was born in today's capital of Belarus, and at the age of eight she was transported by her parents to Hamburg and was given to someone else's family. Later, Ida moved to Italy and married a carpenter Otto Mastroianni. The actor himself allegedly learned about the family secret only in 1980, and the world became aware of this thanks to the book of his biographer Enzo Bjaji, “Beautiful Life: Marcello Mastroianni rings.”

This information is very popular in the Russian -language segment of the network - they wrote about it "RIA Novosti","Komsomolskaya Truth","Arguments and facts in Belarus", As well as some magazines on Jewish theme. History has gained widespread on Facebook, where there are publications about 3000 And 300 Reposts at the time of writing this analysis.

Indeed, according to the official version reflected in biographical dictionaries, the future idol of millions of film prisoners of Marcello Mastroianni was born on September 28, 1924 in the Italian town of Fontana-Liri in the family of Otton Mastroianni and Ida Iroll. At the same time, the information about the mother of Mastroanni is very scarce. The most authoritative organization engaged in the legacy of the actor is the Center for the study and documentation of Marcello Mastroianni. On his official site There is a page dedicated to the ancestors of the artist. It says that at the beginning of the 20th century, the actor’s grandfather, Vincenzo, a native of the neighboring town of Arpino, settled in the fountain-lyirum. He, like his son Otto (Ottorino), was a carpenter, and other relatives of Marcello along the paternal line in the 19th - 20th centuries were engaged in more elegant labor: painting, ceramics and sculpture. Marcello also had the younger brother of Rujero (1929–1996), who became an outstanding film monitor. On page The same resource about the actor’s mother can only be learned that before the birth of the child Ida Irolla worked at the Italian bank. Some authoritative Italian periodicals Confirmthat she, like the Mastroianni family, is from Arpino.

At the same time, it is striking that not a single authoritative foreign site (including Italian) not only confirms the story of the ideas Idelson from Minsk, but does not even lead it as a dubious version. The name of Ida Idelson (1898–1979) in the context of kinship with Mastroianni is mentioned on several genealogical sites: Ancestry.com, Geneanet, Geni. However, the compilers of these branches are ordinary users from which fundamental sources are not required to represent changes to the data.

Mastroianni dedicated to him could shed light on the genealogy. However, in biographies from Giuseppe is little, Andrea Borini, Donald Dewey And Matilda HokhkoflerIdo Herll is again mentioned again-without any hints of her Jewish origin.

Mastroianni does not say anything about his unexpected discovery in the autobiographical film "I remember yes, I remember", Which starred in the last year of his life. In the documentary published in 2006 "Marcello Mastroianni. The modest charm of a normal person"The actor recalls his mother, regrets that he did not indulge her attention too much, but again does not mention the posthumous find.

It can also be noted that individual foreign resources that are mentioned by Ida Idelson are not at all to Italian sources, but to an article of 2019 about Mastroianni in the German -speaking Jüdische rundschauWritten by the Russian writer Yuri Bezlyansky. Another English -language publication of 2020 on the portal Medium belongs to the authorship of a spark of a valley, which also Writes Biographical stories about celebrities in Russian. All this makes you take a closer look at Russian -speaking resources. They, as mentioned above, lead the book by Enzo Biaji as the primary source of this story.

Biography "Beautiful life: Marcello Mastroianni tells»I went out in 1996, shortly before the death of the Italian cinema star. Bjaji, friendly With Mastroianni, he spoke in sufficient detail about his life. “Verified” studied two publications of this book in the original language and did not find any mention of Ideelson. Several times in the book the mother of Mastroianni named Ida appears, but there is no information about her Jewish roots.

Then "verified" turned to the Russian -speaking publication Biajo's books, published in 1998 by the Panorama Publishing House. In addition to the three main chapters present in the Italian publication, there is also the head of the worship, entitled "Chao, Marcello!"

As indicated on the page with technical data, the chapter was prepared by the Panorama Publishing House itself. Judging by the text, it was written after the death of the actor and became a kind of necrologist for him. A lot of space here is devoted to the creative connections of Mastroianni with Russia. And then the author of the chapter unexpectedly proceeds to the story of the find made by Mastroianni in 1980.

In this narrative, several details are paid attention to at once.

The source of the information is called the interview with Mastroianni magazine Cinemagie. The only relatively famous movie magazine with such name He went out in Belgium, and in 1974-1997 he It was called Mediafilm, and the name Cinemagie has been bore since 1998, when Mastroianni was no longer alive and the Russian edition of Bjaji was prepared for the press. Outside of Belgium, this magazine was practically unknown.

It is argued that Mastroianni, according to him, considered his mother a Spaniard by the name of Iroles. However, there is no such information in any Western source, and the name of the actor’s mother is always written without the letter S - Irrole. The signs of the existence of the surname Irroles “verified” could not be found in Europe. IROLLE, although in minimal quantities, after all Mentioned In the Italian archives, including in connection with the town of Arpino.

Before the revolution, there was no birth certificates in Russia, all records of such events were entered in Metric books. A document stored at home, at best, could be an extract from such a book.

“Verified” did not find traces of the existence of a professor of linguistics by Sergi Velinche. Also, “verified” did not meet the mention of Moses and Malka Idelson in documents dedicated to residents of the Minsk province at the indicated time. They are not mentioned in the volunteer system "Great inventory", The genealogical database of Belarus"Relax", Archives from"Yandex", The publication" Memorial Books of the Minsk province "over the different years and a number of other resources. All mention of people with this name and surname lead to replicated articles about Marcello Mastroianni or his alleged genealogical tree. If the children of the Idelsons, who, judging by the text, were a lot, remained in Europe, then with some probability they could survive the Holocaust. IN database The memorial complex of the history of the Holocaust “Yad Va-shim” is listed by more than 1000 carriers of the surname Idelson, but among them, judging by the combination of parents and place of birth, there should not be brothers or sisters of Ida.

Under the film "Lonely Hearts" about the Jewish widow, apparently, this refers to the picture of 1992 Ussed PEOPLE With Shirley McLein, who came out in Russian entitled "Second Binding." “Verified” did not find examples of the rental of this film called “Lonely Hearts” in any country, nor quotes of Mastroianni, in which he would draw a parallel between the heroine of the “second span”-a Jewish from New York of the late 1960s-and his mother. For example, c interview Eliza Leonelli, he spoke about this film about something completely different.

Thus, many facts suggest that the story of the Jewish origin of the mother, Marcello Mastroianni, was invented - if not an employee of the Panorama publishing house, who wrote the afterword to the Russian translation of his biography, then the author of the source that he took advantage of. Apparently, it was this Russian edition of 1998 that became the root cause of the spread of rumors about ide in Idelson.

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