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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Italian director Marco Bellocchio says that his next film project will be about the illegitimate son of former Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. By Eric J. Lyman, The Associated Press Italian ...

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 ...

Joe Wright on set of 'M. Son of the Century' Fremantle Italia Filmmaker Joe Wright takes a 180 in the portrayal of World War II prime ministers, pivoting from the wise and measured Winston Churchill ...

A new docu-drama examining the life of an Irish woman who shot Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini in the face as he addressed a crowd in Rome has debuted at this year's Kerry International Film ...

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 ...

Sky and Fremantle have released the first teaser-trailer for “M – Son of the Century,” the hotly anticipated series about Benito Mussolini’s rise to power that will launch from the upcoming Venice ...

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 ...

At an Italian comics show, earlier this month, the stand of an publisher who published a antifascist comic book parody of Mussolini was vandalized, by a protestor who spilled drinks over the stand, ...