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Fascist dictator 'Il Duce' Benito Mussolini
[1883-1945]
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Stageplays
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Benito Mussolini co-wrote four stageplays (1930-39) with Giovacchino Forzano [1884-1970], who also wrote
librettos for operas by Franchetti, Mascagni, and Puccini.
"Campo di Maggio (Field of May)" by Mussolini & Forzano [1930]
Forzano wrote & directed an Italian movie called "100 Days of Napoleon" [Sept 1936] /tt0026168/
based on "Campo di Maggio" that starred Corrado Racca as Napoleon Bonaparte
"Villafranca" by Mussolini & Forzano [1931]
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0024737/ 1934
  | "Napoleon: The Hundred Days" by Mussolini & Forzano [1932] adapted for the English stage by John Drinkwater Sidgwick & Jackson, Ltd. pb [1932] long out of print/scarce "Hundert Tage (100 Days)" [Austria March 1935] |
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"Scrivere Teatro Nel Regime (Writing Theatre In The Regime): Giovacchino Forzano e La Collaborazione con Mussolini" [2015] by Marco Sterpos
Italian-language Mucchi Editore pb [6/2015] for $36.63 |
"Behind The Counter With Mussolini" one-person stageplay [1995]
 | One-person stageplay co-written & performed by Marco Greco about the influence of Benito Mussolini on his father and working at the family's popular delicatessen in New York City •
Co-written by Dante Albertie; performed at the Belmont Italian American Playhouse in NYC in December 1995; won a CableACE award in 1997; 39 performances at York Theatre at St. Peter's in NYC, Nov-Dec 1998; hit Los Angeles run in 1999 at the Tamarind Theatre, directed by Stephen Adly Guirgis; return run at Met Theatre in Los Angeles, Feb-March 2002
Marco Greco entry at Wikipedia • real life Mike's Deli website |
 | "Margherita: A Two-Act Drama" [2011] by Anthony E. Gallo Margherita Sarfatti is preparing to leave the country; a masked visitor appears at her door, her former lover Benito Mussolini - they have not spoken for three years . . . CreateSpace 9x6 pb [2/2011] for $6.50 |
"Gran Consiglio (Mussolini)" one-person stageplay [2015] by Tom Corradini
 | billed as 'a satirical journey into the mind of Benito Mussolini'; based at the Tom Corradini Teatro [est. 2010] in Turin, Italy; performances across Europe include Prague Fringe Festival 2015, Brighton Fringe Festival 2016, and Avignon Off 2017 (won prize for Best One-Person Performance) •
stageplay official homepage
watch official English-language trailer [3:26] online at YouTube | |
 | "Mussolini: Script and Guide To The Show" [2022] by actor/playwright Tom Corradini Kindle Edition from self-publd [12/2022] for $3.00 self-publd 9x6 pb [1/2023] for $7.00 |
"Violet Gibson" one-person stageplay [Ireland Jan 2016]
 | Written & performed by Alice Barry, directed by Jason Byrne
Violet Gibson [1876-1956] from Ireland shot at Mussolini in April 1926, from arm's distance during a walking parade; the first shot grazed Il Duce's nose, then the gun jammed; Violet was declared insane and spent the rest of her life in British asylums • playscript not available at Amazon or elsewhere; performed in January 2016 by Noggin Theatre Company in association with Granary Theatre in Cork City, Ireland |
Movies & Television
Benito Mussolini credit listing {400 titles since 1932} at Internet Movie Database
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Benito Mussolini 1927 Sound Footage from British Fox MovieTone News
watch b&w sound clip [7/2016 upload; 01:20] online at YouTube
"Chasing Through Europe" [Fox Italy Aug 1929]
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0019759/fullcredits/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chasing_Through_Europe
"Killers of Mussolini" live TV drama [CBS-TV June 1959]
Season 3, Episode 35 of the "Playhouse 90" TV series [1956-60]
 | "live from Television City in Hollywood" • In April 1945, as American forces close in on Milan, Italian dictator Benito Mussolini must decide whether to surrender or to flee • Directed by Buzz Kulik; written by A.E. Hotchner; starring Nehemiah Persoff {as Mussolini}, Harry Guardino, Michael Ansara, Ilka Windish, John Dehner, Eduardo Ciannelli, Lawrence Dobkin, Frank Puglia, Erika Remberg
VHS/DVD/Blu-ray not available • full credits at IMDb watch full b&w episode [6/2017 upload; 1:28:13] online at YouTube |
"The Last Days of Mussolini" [Italy March 1974, USA Oct 1977]
aka "Mussolini: The Last Four Days" and "Mussolini Ultimo Atto (The Last Act)"
 | Filmed in Italy in Eastmancolor™, with b&w archive footage; Italy length 126 minutes, USA length 91 minutes; the dictator of fascist Italy faces certain defeat by the Allies, so to avoid capture he attempts to flee the country with his lover – but Italian partisans are on their tail (the movie covers the last four days of Mussolini's life) • Co-written & directed by Carlo Lizzani; co-written by Fabio Pittorru; starring Rod Steiger, Franco Nero, Lisa Gastoni, Lino Capolicchio, Henry Fonda, Giuseppe Addobbati, Andrea Aureli, Bruno Corazzari, Rodolfo Dal Pra, Francesco Di Federico, Manfred Freyberger, Marco Guglielmi, Umberto Raho, Giacomo Rossi Stuart, Massimo Sarchielli, Bill Vanders, Franco Balducci, Benito Bolognini Cobianchi, Lucio Como, Arturo Corso, Mimmo Craig, Marvin Drake, Tom Felleghy, Franco Ferri, Enzo Fisichella, Giovanni Fracasso, Mario Mattia Giorgetti, Luigi Antonio Guerra, Fabrizio Jovine, Giancarlo Lolli, Gilberto Mazzi, Franco Mazzieri, Piero Mazzinghi, Annibale Papetti, Renato Paracchi, Lino Patruno, Luciano Pigozzi, Dante Posani, Elisa Pozzi, Gaetano Russo, Vittorio Sancisi, Tony Satyr, Renzo Scali, Claudio Sforzini, John Stacy, Meg Tarantino, Rosita Torosh, Valeriano Vallone, Remo Varisco, with b&w archive footage of Dwight D. Eisenhower, Adolf Hitler, King Victor Emmanuel III & Benito Mussolini
129-minute NoShame Films widescreen color DVD [11/2006] out of prodn/used full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia watch full movie - in Italian with tiny subtitles [10/2015 upload; 2:04:14] online at YouTube watch full movie - in Italian - no subtitles [4/2020 upload; 2:04:07] online at YouTube |
"Lion of The Desert" [U.F.D.C. April 1981]
 | Filmed in Libya & Italy; Italy's expansionist plans included invading and conquering Libya, but a Bedouin chieftain rallied his people to battle the Italian tanks on horseback and hold off the invaders for twenty years; in 1929, Mussolini tasked a Fascist army general with beating the nativist resistence, which was done in two years • Funded by Libya's dictator Muammar al-Qaddafi; co-produced & directed by Moustapha Akkad; written by H.A.L. Craig, David Butler & Paul Thompson; music by Maurice Jarre; starring Anthony Quinn {as Omar Mukhtar}, Oliver Reed, Irene Papas, Raf Vallone, Rod Steiger {as Benito Mussolini}, John Gielgud, Andrew Keir, Gastone Moschin, Stefano Patrizi, Adolfo Lastretti, Sky du Mont, Takis Emmanuel, Rodolfo Bigotti, Robert Brown, Eleonora Stathopoulou, Luciano Bartoli, Claudio Gora, Giordano Falzoni, Franco Fantasia, Ihab Werfali, Ewen Solon, Loris Bazzocchi, Alec Mango, Filippo De Gara, George Sweeney, Pietro Tordi, Massimiliano Baratta, Mario Feliciani, Piero Gerlini, Lino Capolicchio, with archive footage of Benito Mussolini
Starz/Anchor Bay color Blu-ray [11/2013] for $13.50 Starz/Anchor Bay 25th Anniv Edition color DVD [11/2005] 2 disks for $6.49 full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia |
"Mussolini and I" TV mini-series [RAI Uno/HBO Sept 1985]
 | four 1-hour episodes; 'A compelling drama and documentary chronicling the life and death of Il Duce from his days as a terrorist, to his alliance with Hitler, to the betrayal of his son-in-law, and his untimely demise.' • Co-written & directed by Alberto Negrin; co-written by Nicola Badalucco; starring Susan Sarandon {as Edda Mussolini Ciano}, Anthony Hopkins {as Count Galeazzo Ciano}, Bob Hoskins {as Benito Mussolini}, Annie Girardot {as Rachele Mussolini}, Barbara De Rossi {as Claretta Petacci}, Dietlinde Turban, Vittorio Mezzogiorno, Fabio Testi, Massimo Dapporto, Gian-Polo Vetturini, Luca Orlandini, Francesca Rinaldi, Franco Mazzieri, Leslie Thomas, Mario Ingrassia, Luigi Romano, Manuela Mortera, Eric Valsecchi, Oliver Domnick, Ted Rusoff, Kurt Raab {as Adolf Hitler}, Carolyn De Fonseca, Micaela Giustiniani, Gianni Pulone, Stefano De Sando, Luciano Baglioni, Piero Palermini, Franco Meroni, Robert Sommer, Carlheinz Heitmann, Dieter Schidor, Hans-Dieter Asner, Marne Maitland {as King Victor Emanuel}
full credits at IMDb • series entry at Wikipedia Koch Vision color DVD [8/2003] 2 disks for $30.00 Koch Vision color VHS [8/2003] 2 tapes for $23.73 2-hour Embassy color VHS [5/93] for $49.95 |
"Mussolini: The Untold Story" TV mini-series [NBC-TV Nov 1985]
 | 410-minute (6 hours, 50 minutes) 3-part TV series based on the memories of eldest son Vittorio Mussolini, from Benito's 1922 rise to power, to the 1935 invasion of Ethiopia, to World War II and Italy's defeat and Benito's inevitable downfall • Co-produced & written by Stirling Silliphant; directed by William A. Graham; music by Laurence Rosenthal; starring George C. Scott, David Suchet, Spencer Chandler, Lee Grant, Mary Elizabeth Mastran-tonio, Raul Julia, Virginia Madsen, Robert Downey Jr., Gabriel Byrne, Kenneth Colley, Michael Aldridge, Gunnar Möller {as Adolf Hitler}, Relja Basic, Gina Bellman, George Coulouris, Vernon Dobtcheff, Michael Forest, Janet Graham, Constantine Gregory, Robert Gwilym, Paul Herzberg, Virginia Hey, Godfrey James, Milton Johns, Wolf Kahler, Richard Kane, Paul Kehagias, Anne-Louise Lambert, Annabel Leventon, Bruce Lidington, Michael MacKenzie, Philip Madoc, Stephen Marshall, Ryan Mitchell, John Moreno, David Pullan, Tony Vogel, Tracy-Louise Ward, Eileen Way
full credits at IMDb • series entry at Wikipedia 5½-hour Sprocket Vault color DVD [8/00] 2 disks for $14.99 watch shortened video - English with Portuguese subtitles [1/2018 upload; 5:20:57] online at YouTube |
"Il Segreto di Mussolini (Musssolini's Secret)" TV movie [Italy Jan 2005]
 | TV documentary that broke the long-suppressed story of Ida Dalser, her relationship with Mussolini, and of their son Benito Albino Mussolini [1915-42] • Directed by Fabrizio Laurenti & Gianfranco Norelli; featuring Alfredo Pieroni, Monica Scattini {voice of Ida Dalser}, with archive footage of Benito Mussolini • VHS/DVD/Blu-ray not available •
bare credits at IMDb
watch full movie - no subtitles [9/2013 upload; 1:44:57] online at YouTube |
"Italian Fascism In Color" TV docufilm [Discovery Channel 2007]
 | tagline: 'The Dramatic and Violent Story of Italy Under Fascism Told On Film For The First Time' • The untold story of how Mussolini seized power through systematic intimidation, violence, and murder • Co-produced & directed by Chris Oxley; narrated by Bill Paterson; featuring actor Stefano Fregni, Robert Mallett (Univ of Birm-ingham), John Pollard (Cambridge Univ), Roy Domenico (Univ of Scranton), author Alexander Stille, Stanley G. Payne (Univ of Wisconsin, Madison), Emilio Gentile (Univ of Rome), Adrian Lyttleton (Johns Hopkins Univ, Bologna); NOTE: TV broadcast was narrated by American Stephen Buskin • full credits at IMDb
Shanachie Records color DVD [9/2007] for $19.97 Shanachie Records color DVD [9/2007] for $25.98 |
"Vincere ! (To Win)" [Italy May 2009, USA March 2010]
 | The life of Benito Mussolini's first wife Ida Dalser, whose existence was suppressed; Ida fell in love with Benito and supported him during the 1910s, bore him a son and married circa 1914; they lost touch and she discovered him in a hospital during the war, and also found that Benito married Rachele Guidi in 1915 after she bore him a daughter; Ida and son Benito Albino were imprisoned in insane asylums where they each died under suspicious circumstances • Co-written & directed by Marco Bellocchio; co-written by Daniela Ceselli; starring Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Filippo Timi, Fausto Russo Alesi, Michela Cescon, Pier Giorgio Bellocchio, Paolo Pierobon, Corrado Invernizzi, Bruno Cariello, Francesca Picozza, Simona Nobili, Vanessa Scalera, Giovanna Mori, Silvia Ferretti, Patrizia Bettini, Corinne Castelli, Giovanni Vettorazzo, Giorgio Santomaso, Fabrizio Costella, Anna Bianchi, Alberto Cracco, Marco Spiga, Alberto Bellocchio, Letizia Bellocchio, Maria Luisa Bellocchio, Rossana Mortara, Gianni Schicchi, Giuseppe Marchese, Cesare Scova, Rodolfo Tabasso, Tito Tomassini, Laura Saito, Federico Bava, with archive footage of Benito Mussolini; won eight David di Donatello Awards, several film festival awards •
full credits at IMDb •
movie entry at Wikipedia
Region 1 Blu-ray not available • I.F.C. Independent Film widescreen color DVD [7/2010] for $15.00 watch trailers online at YouTube: 5/2009 Italian-language trailer #1 [1:40] • very different 2/2010 trailer #2 w/English subtitles [1:58] watch full movie - Italian-language, no subtitles [3/2017 upload; 1:59:43] online at YouTube |
 | "Vincere! Passione, Potere Egemonico e Censura della Memoria: Mussolini nel Cinema Italiano - Un’Analisi Metastorica del Film di Marco Belloccio" [2011] by Erminia Passannanti Short Italian-language analysis of the movie and its historical accuracy 46-page Kindle Edition from Amazon Digital Services [1/2013] for $6.99 53-page indep 9x6 pb [10/2011] for $5.00 54-page LULU.com 8¼x5¾ pb [6/2014] for $12.05 |
"Propaganda" TV documentary [RAI-TV 3 June 2010]
100-minute documentary TV movie covering propaganda during Fascist rule in Italy • Co-written & directed by Enzo Antonio Cicchino;
with archive footage of Giovanni Gentile, Benito Mussolini, Alessandro Pavolini, Clara Petacci, Margherita Sarfatti •
credits at IMDb
"Robbing Mussolini" cable movie [Netflix Oct 2022]
 | A Milanese wartime entrepreneur forms a band of misfits to conduct an elaborate heist of the legendary treasure belonging to the Duce of Fascism, Benito Mussolini • Written & directed by Renato De Maria; starring Pietro Castellitto, Matilda De Angelis, Tommaso Ragno, Isabella Ferrari, Alberto Astorri, Maccio Capatonda {as the pilot}, Luigi Fedele, Rebecca Coco Edogamhe, Maurizio Lombardi, Lorenzo de Moor, Luca Lo Destro, Filippo Timi {as Achille Borsalino}, Giorgio Antonini, Enrico Bergamasco, Matteo Bergamo, Giovanni James Bertoia, Lorenzo Bianchini, Claudio Castana, Elsa Chittaro, Giuseppe Ciampa, Leonardo Cianchetti, Stefano Daniele {as Mussolini}, Giovanni De Maria, Nina De Maria, Eugenio di Fraia, Marco Matteo Donat-Cattin, Alessandro Fantinato, Giuseppe Lo Gaglio, Miguel Lombardi, Veronica Manzo, Alessio Sapienza, Antonio Scarpa, Tommaso Sculin, Giuditta Sin, Giulia Villani •
full credits at IMDb •
official movie homepage
DVD/Blu-ray not available • watch 9/2022 Netflix official Italian-language trailer with subtitles [2:16] at YouTube watch 10/2022 Italian-language fan-made edited highlights [4:40] at YouTube |
Comedian Maccio Capatonda, who plays the character of champion pilot Denis Fabbri in the movie, made a comedic fake trailer
in which he put himself as the main star of the picture, 'playing' all of the roles, as part of the movie's marketing campaign;
the fake trailer received more views and likes than the real one.
watch Italian-language 9/2022 fake trailer [2:43] online at YouTube
Other Media
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  | the French song "Viva Mussolini" was published in France in 1923, words by Lucien Boyer, music by Vincent Scotto Perchicot listen to audio recording & slide show [7/2014 upload; 2:57] online at YouTube |
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