Mussolini - The last days

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Movie
German title Mussolini - The last days
Original title Mussolini - ultimo atto
Country of production Italy
original language Italian
Publishing year 1974
length 110 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Carlo Lizzani
script Fabio Pittorru
Carlo Lizzani
production Enzo Peri
music Ennio Morricone
camera Roberto Gerardi
cut Franco Fraticelli
occupation

Mussolini - The Last Days (Original Title: Mussolini - ultimo atto ) is an Italian feature film by the director Carlo Lizzani from 1974.

action

The film is set in Italy between April 24 and 28, 1945. The Italian dictator Benito Mussolini has fallen and is gradually being abandoned by his followers. With his lover Claretta Petacci he is on the run somewhere between Milan and Lake Como . His goal is to get to Switzerland to convince Winston Churchill of a war against communism from neutral soil . But Mussolini is being hunted. The Germans want to find him before the Americans in order to prevent a winning process. Italian anti-fascists have already sentenced him to death in absentia and want to enforce the sentence. In the end, he is disguised as a German soldier by partisans on Lake Como and shot together with his lover on April 28, 1945.

Reviews

"An epic reconstruction of the last days of the life of the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini in April 1945. His escape route from Milan to Como, on which he loses almost all of his followers, shows the discrepancy between usurped claim to power and a doomed existence."

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Mussolini - The last days. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used