May 16, 2021
52 min
Full-HD

Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita (2021)

Cinecitta is today known as the center of the Italian film industry. But there is a dark past. The film city was solemnly inaugurated in 1937 by Mussolini. Here, propaganda films would be produced to strengthen the dictator's position.

Chloé Réjon

Narrator (voice)

Benito Mussolini

Self (archive footage)

Mauro Canali

Self

Vito Zagarrio

Self

Caterina D’Amico

Self

Francesca Comencini

Self

Alessandro Blasetti

Self (archive footage)

Giulio Andreotti

Self (archive footage)

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Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita (2021)

Chloé Réjon

Benito Mussolini

Mauro Canali

Vito Zagarrio

Caterina D’Amico

Francesca Comencini

Alessandro Blasetti

Giulio Andreotti