Simone Cristicchi performing a monologue, wearing a military coat

(PREMIUM RATES APPLY) Italian singer-songwriter and actor Simone Cristicchi, wearing a military coat, counts with his fingers, in a scene from the monologue Li Romani in Russia (Roman People in Russia); the play is based upon the homonymous verse poem written by Elia Marcelli, narrating the horror of the Second World War through the eyes of a survivor, interchanging poetic verses and Roman dialect. Italy, 2012. (Photo by Giorgio Lotti/Archivio Giorgio Lotti/Mondadori via Getty Images)