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Dominican Rep. Benito: The Rise and Fall of Mussolini (A Man Named Benito) (TV Miniseries)
- Original title
- Il giovane Mussolini
- Year
- 1993
- Running time
- 114 min.
- Country
Italy- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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Antonio Banderas
Toni Bertorelli- Valentina Lainati
Ivano Marescotti- Jirí Ornest
Franco Mescolini
Anna Geislerová
Susanne Lothar
Luca Zingaretti- Jan Preucil
- Václav Kotva
- Klára Pollertová
- Gabriela Wilhelmová
Jan Novotny
Robert Jasków- Ladislav Gerendás
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- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Co-production Italy-Czech Republic-Spain-Germany;
- Genre
- TV Series. Drama | TV Miniseries. Politics. Biography
- Synopsis
- The story starts at the point in Benito Mussolini's life when, at the age of nineteen, he gave up being a schoolmaster, left his home town of Forli and, as a guest worker on a building-site in Lausanne, Switzerland, underwent his own personal experience of the darker sides of the capitalist system. The speed with which the rhetorically gifted demagogue manages to assemble whole crowds of friends and followers around him - including above all his "protectress", the enigmatic Russian woman Angelika - is reflected in the speed at which he succeeds in attracting enemies from church and state. His love for the beautiful Eleonora, the daughter of a middle-class family, studying medicine at the University of Geneva - a city where Mussolini himself has been carrying stone around as an unskilled worker - even convinces him to take up studying. When a fatal accident occurs on the building-site...
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Gianluigi Calderone
