Directed by Roman helmer Fabrizio Laurentini, the film examines Italy's fascination with the fascist dictator. By Eric J. Lyman Mussolini Portrait - P 2011 A controversial new documentary exploring ...

Mussolini book leads to 8-part TV series unveiled in Venice Story resonates today as far-right rises again, director says False narratives about Mussolini persist in Italy VENICE, Sept 6 (Reuters) - ...

Fascism – its roots, legacy and contemporary manifestations – is a leitmotif running throughout the 79th Venice Film Festival as Italy marks the centenary of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini’s ...

It was Adolf Hitler’s name that became synonymous with evil, but his Italian counterpart — Benito Mussolini, named for a Mexican revolutionary leader by his staunchly Socialist father — was arguably ...

ROME — Italo helmer Marco Bellocchio will tackle the touchy subject of fascist dictator Benito Mussolini’s illegitimate son in a film being developed by RAI Cinema. Born out of wedlock before ...

"We are the new. Every era has one." Sky TV has revealed the first teaser trailer for the new series titled M. Son of the Century, a chilling look at the rise of fascism in Italy. This series is set ...

In “The March on Rome,” which world premiered in the Venice Days sidebar of Venice Film Festival, Northern Irish-Scottish filmmaker Mark Cousins tracks the ascent of fascism in Italy in the 1920s, and ...

De Angelis plays a nightclub singer in 1945 who gets drawn into a scheme to rip off the Italian dictator before the Allied Forces arrive. By Gianmaria Tammaro Matilda De Angelis is having a bit of a ...

Robbing Mussolini (now on Netflix) posits a sort-of-new “what if” of a movie premise: What if your slick heist flick got WWII’ed? Writer/director Renato De Maria’s film opens with a title card that ...

Guy Mayfield’s debut short film, The Butterfly Keeper, will premiere in a matter of days. Shot in North Texas, the film follows Patrick Cannon (a fictionalized version of Mayfield’s grandfather, ...

The Russian Culture Ministry has denied a distribution certificate to a new film by Aleksandr Sokurov, the award-winning director told Russian media on October 15. The film, Fairy Tale, centers around ...

This week’s quiz is equal parts historical, morbid and representative of enduring heartbreak. Eighty years ago this week, two of the 20th Century’s most lethal dictators, and enemies of the Allied ...