Overview
- Rai 1 is airing the two‑part Morbo K – Chi salva una vita salva il mondo intero on January 27–28, directed by Francesco Patierno and produced by Fabula Pictures with RaiFiction.
- The series is inspired by real events but changes names and compresses episodes, with Vincenzo Ferrera as the lead doctor and Giacomo Giorgio as his assistant.
- In 1943, physicians Giovanni Borromeo, Vittorio Emanuele Sacerdoti and Adriano Ossicini created a fictitious diagnosis and a dedicated ward to shelter persecuted Jews.
- Borromeo, fluent in German, convinced Nazi inspectors that the invented illness was lethal and highly contagious as patients feigned symptoms to avoid searches.
- Hidden patients waited for forged documents from Resistance-linked print shops to escape deportation, a network supported by Fatebenefratelli friars; Borromeo was later recognized by Yad Vashem as Righteous Among the Nations.