(2024, Italy, France, 212')
Inspired by Antonio Scurati’s novel of the same name, the series tells the story of a man (M., Mussolini) who has managed to rise from his own ashes multiple times, characterized by a political intuition that faced no obstacles at the time. Through his biography, the series explores the history from the founding of the Italian Fasci in 1919 to Mussolini’s infamous speech in Parliament in 1925, following the murder of Socialist deputy Giacomo Matteotti, for which Mussolini took full “political, moral, and historical” responsibility.
Always attentive to the connections between cinema and literature, British director and screenwriter Joe Wright (1972) has directed Pride and Prejudice based on Jane Austen’s novel, Atonement from Ian McEwan’s bestseller (which opened Venice in 2007), and Anna Karenina adapted from Leo Tolstoy’s masterpiece (all starring Keira Knightley). In 2017, he directed Gary Oldman in Darkest Hour, a biopic on Winston Churchill that earned Oldman the Oscar for Best Actor.
