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Elio Germano as Giorgio and Tom Wlaschiha as W.R Neumann in Rose Island
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Like novels, everyone’s got an island in them. It’s a common enough dream to have a scrap of land to call your own; somewhere that’s free, inviolate, ours alone.
But like the realms of manuscripts languishing in dusty drawers, most people shelve those dreams when the responsibilities of adulthood begin to lap at their feet.
Not Giorgio Rosa. In spring 1967, the Italian engineer designed and funded a 400m
2 platform in the sea, over 7 miles off the coast of Rimini. Hoisted 26 metres off the seabed by steel pipework, Rosa’s project was an ungainly construction: a concrete bungalow squatting on an oil rig.
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New Netflix film shows true story of Giorgia Rosa, who built the Republic of Rose Island in Adriatic sea
The nation took the form of a structure constructed on a 4,000 sq ft platform and had its own currency
The Republic of Rose Island became a party haven in the late 60s but only survived two months
Remarkable story is told in Netflix film Rose Island starring The Undoing s Matilda De Angelis
The extraordinary true story of an engineer who built his own nation on a 4,000 sqft platform off the coast of Italy in 1968 is told in a new Netflix drama.