A tale of courage and survival takes to the big screen Friday as part of the Italian Film Festival USA’s stop in Dearborn. Italian filmmaker Pierette Domenica Simpson, a survivor of the 1956 sinking of the Italian luxury liner the Andrea Doria, will share her story during a screening of her documentary, “Andrea Doria: Are the Passengers Saved?” at 7 p.m. April 14 at Henry Ford College.
On July 25, 1956, the Andrea Doria was broadsided by the ship Stockholm in heavy fog near Nantucket Island. Simpson, then a 9-year-old immigrant traveling with her grandparents, recounts the harrowing experience and the truth surrounding the tragedy in the 77-minute docudrama. She and her grandparents were three of the 1,660 survivors of the wreck.
