March on Rome (film)
1962 Italian comedy film / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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March on Rome (Italian: La marcia su Roma) is a 1962 comedy film by Dino Risi with Vittorio Gassman and Ugo Tognazzi, aimed at describing the March on Rome of Benito Mussolini's blackshirts from the point of view of two newly recruited, naïve blackshirts.
March on Rome (La marcia su Roma) | |
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Directed by | Dino Risi |
Written by | Age & Scarpelli, Sandro Continenza, Dino Risi, Ghigo De Chiara, Ruggero Maccari |
Produced by | Mario Cecchi Gori |
Starring | Ugo Tognazzi Vittorio Gassman |
Cinematography | Alfio Contini |
Edited by | Alberto Gallitti |
Music by | Marcello Giombini |
Distributed by | Lux Film (Dino de Laurentiis) |
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Running time | 94 minutes |
Country | Italy |
Language | Italian |
The movie's main theme is the gradual betrayal of all the promises of the National Fascist Party: the two gradually tick all the main points of the fascist program as described on a propaganda flyer every time they are contradicted by practice. In its early stages fascism was a radical republican movement, suspicious of large businesses, nobility and the Catholic Church (Mussolini himself had been a socialist earlier in his career, being cast out of the Italian Socialist Party when his nationalism grew more and more pronounced). When arriving in Rome, and having ticked them all off, they leave the fascist party in the moment of its victory.