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Vincere Celluloid Dreams ; 01 Distribution ; Offside e RAI Cinema presentano ; una coproduzione Italo Francese, Rai Cinema, Offside, Celluloid Dreams ; iniziativa realizzata con il contributo e il patrocinio della Direzione Generale per il Cinema, Ministero per i Beni e le Attivit�a Culturali ; con il sostegno de Erimages ; in collaborazione con l'Istituto Luce, Sofica Soficinema 4 ; produttore esecutivo, Olivia Sleiter ; soggetto, Marco Bellocchio ; sceneggiatura, Marco Bellocchio e Daniela Ceselli ; prodotto da Mario Gianani ; un film di Marco Bellocchio. , Italy France - RAI Cinema New York 2010 - 1 videodisc (124 min.) : sound, color & black and white ; 4 3/4 in. - 4 3/4 in.

Originally produced as an Italian/French motion picture in 2009. Anamorphic widescreen (1.85:1) presentation. Special features: Trailer (2 min.); Previews (9 min.).

Win -- Night together -- Meetings -- Burnings -- The violin -- Another woman -- At the theater -- "You thief" -- Protecting her son -- Small wedding -- The crazies -- Taking the child -- Son's note -- Play along -- A few questions -- "My real name" -- Beg and plead -- Grown up -- A little help -- Common grave -- End credits.





This strange and powerful blend of historical fact and dreamlike imagination captures both the charisma and the murderous madness of the young Benito Mussolini. In the years before World War I, in the northern city of Trent, he and Ida Dalser, daughter of a minor aristocrat, carried on a passionate affair. He's a charismatic anticlerical socialist, interventionist, and journalist who dreams of glory. She's a bourgeois who sells all her possessions to fund his newspaper. They married in secret, she bore him a son, and when he returned from World War I with another wife, she became an inconvenient woman. She would neither go away nor be quiet, so Mussolini had her sequestered in mental asylums where she lived out her days, she protested her imprisonment until the end, as Il Duce scrubbed from his life and from history. The film offers a devastating parallel between the rise of fascism and the bullying manner of Mussolini's personal relationships. Bend one inconvenient woman to his will and rewrite the truth, or bend a whole nation to one's will and rewrite history: The only difference is that of scale.

Not rated.




In Italian with optional subtitles in English, English SDH (subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing), or Spanish.

9780788613111 0788613111

IFC532 IFC Films IFC9532 IFC Films




Mussolini, Benito, 1883-1945 --Family--Drama.
Dalser, Ida, 1880-1937 --Drama.


1922-1945


Sex addiction--Drama.
Man-woman relationships--Drama.
Abandoned wives--Drama.
Abandoned children--Drama.
Mental illness--Drama.
Motion pictures, Italian.
Cinema italien.


Italy--History--1922-1945--Drama.
Italy.



PN1997.2 / .V56 2010

Vin 35