1 00:00:34,552 --> 00:00:38,289 M: There always comes a time when a lost people 2 00:00:38,289 --> 00:00:38,389 M: There always comes a time when a lost people 3 00:00:38,510 --> 00:00:40,888 turns to simple ideas. 4 00:00:41,844 --> 00:00:45,057 The cunning brutality of strongmen. 5 00:00:47,093 --> 00:00:50,764 They find in us an outlet for their resentment. 6 00:00:52,634 --> 00:00:56,847 An escape from their mortifying sense of impotence. 7 00:00:57,385 --> 00:01:00,013 A hope of miraculously reversing 8 00:01:00,093 --> 00:01:03,221 their unsatisfactory destiny. 9 00:01:06,301 --> 00:01:07,594 MAN: Hail to the Duce! 10 00:01:08,342 --> 00:01:11,055 CROWD: Duce! Duce! Duce! 11 00:01:11,134 --> 00:01:13,052 M: You only need the right words. 12 00:01:13,176 --> 00:01:14,802 Simple and direct words. 13 00:01:14,925 --> 00:01:16,927 The right gaze and tone. 14 00:01:17,052 --> 00:01:21,138 MUSSOLINI: Italy, under lictorian leadership, 15 00:01:21,800 --> 00:01:22,885 will attain 16 00:01:23,550 --> 00:01:24,885 wellbeing, 17 00:01:25,383 --> 00:01:27,051 power, and glory! 18 00:01:28,884 --> 00:01:31,470 M: So you love us. You worship us. 19 00:01:32,592 --> 00:01:36,471 MUSSOLINI: It would never! Never, I say! 20 00:01:36,592 --> 00:01:38,677 CROWD: Duce! Duce! Duce! 21 00:01:41,049 --> 00:01:43,260 M: You loved me madly. 22 00:01:43,383 --> 00:01:46,928 For 20 years, you worshiped and feared me as a deity. 23 00:02:04,215 --> 00:02:08,344 And then you hated me, and hated me madly, 24 00:02:08,465 --> 00:02:13,094 - because you still loved me. - (CROWD CLAMORING) 25 00:02:13,214 --> 00:02:17,051 You ridiculed me. You desecrated my remains, 26 00:02:17,173 --> 00:02:20,426 because you were scared of your mad love for me. 27 00:02:22,049 --> 00:02:23,257 Even after I died. 28 00:02:25,964 --> 00:02:28,341 But tell me. What was the point? 29 00:02:29,173 --> 00:02:30,591 Look around. 30 00:02:31,338 --> 00:02:34,051 We're still here. 31 00:02:34,547 --> 00:02:39,260 MILAN MARCH 23, 1919 32 00:02:40,547 --> 00:02:44,676 (GRUNTING SOFTLY) 33 00:03:08,296 --> 00:03:12,049 My name is Mussolini Benito Amilcare Andrea. 34 00:03:12,962 --> 00:03:15,923 son of Mussolini Alessandro and Maltoni Rosa. 35 00:03:16,378 --> 00:03:21,091 I'm 35 and I run a newspaper that I founded. 36 00:03:23,837 --> 00:03:27,174 I owe my name to my father's socialist convictions. 37 00:03:28,211 --> 00:03:30,505 Andrea, like Andrea Costa, 38 00:03:30,628 --> 00:03:34,132 founder of Romagna's Revolutionary Socialist Party. 39 00:03:34,586 --> 00:03:37,422 Amilcare, like Amilcare Cipriani, 40 00:03:38,046 --> 00:03:43,049 patriot, adventurer, socialist and staunch anarchist. 41 00:03:43,544 --> 00:03:46,172 Benito, like Benito Juarez, 42 00:03:46,294 --> 00:03:48,087 another revolutionary, 43 00:03:48,210 --> 00:03:52,423 and first indigenous to hold the office of President of Mexico. 44 00:03:53,127 --> 00:03:55,713 So I owe my name to an indigenous man? 45 00:03:57,377 --> 00:04:00,756 A man who was only four and a half. 46 00:04:02,334 --> 00:04:03,711 A little man. 47 00:04:04,334 --> 00:04:06,044 Nothing like me. 48 00:04:08,752 --> 00:04:11,171 Apart from the revolutionary spirit. 49 00:04:15,376 --> 00:04:18,713 - (PEOPLE SINGING INDISTINCTLY) - Today, March 23rd, 1919, 50 00:04:18,834 --> 00:04:22,379 is a day that will go down in history. 51 00:04:23,084 --> 00:04:26,546 I am like the beasts. I smell the weather before it changes. 52 00:04:26,667 --> 00:04:28,669 And it's changing in my favor. 53 00:04:28,792 --> 00:04:31,754 ♪ Onwards, Ardito The black flames... 54 00:04:31,876 --> 00:04:33,878 Here they are, my lost people. 55 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:35,460 ♪ They're like a symbol... 56 00:04:35,584 --> 00:04:38,712 They need strongmen and simple ideas. 57 00:04:38,833 --> 00:04:43,171 The destitute, the crippled, the veterans of the Great War. 58 00:04:43,292 --> 00:04:45,419 ♪ With hand grenades! 59 00:04:45,541 --> 00:04:49,003 ♪ Black flames, vanguards of death 60 00:04:49,083 --> 00:04:51,627 - See you at dinner, Volpi - ♪ We bring the meaning 61 00:04:51,750 --> 00:04:53,293 ♪ Of the fight and fear 62 00:04:53,416 --> 00:04:57,336 ♪ We're pride mutated to cohort... ♪ 63 00:04:58,124 --> 00:05:00,793 You know what the Great War is, right? 64 00:05:00,915 --> 00:05:05,503 1914-1918, Europe is in flames. 65 00:05:05,832 --> 00:05:09,878 Four years of battles from Russia to Italy. 66 00:05:10,042 --> 00:05:14,086 10 million dead, 21 million wounded, 67 00:05:14,206 --> 00:05:18,335 and countless veterans, destitute. 68 00:05:18,457 --> 00:05:21,251 Like them, who are here for me. 69 00:05:22,123 --> 00:05:25,084 Albino Volpi. He has a hefty criminal record. 70 00:05:25,206 --> 00:05:27,917 Volunteer. Caiman of the Piave. 71 00:05:29,290 --> 00:05:31,125 Brave soldiers. 72 00:05:31,248 --> 00:05:33,667 They were promised compensations, rewards, 73 00:05:33,789 --> 00:05:35,499 the honor of victory. 74 00:05:35,622 --> 00:05:37,374 Instead, they got nothing. 75 00:05:37,497 --> 00:05:39,207 Not even a pension. 76 00:05:39,330 --> 00:05:43,126 Only the contempt of those who didn't want the war 77 00:05:43,247 --> 00:05:45,207 and who didn't fight it. 78 00:05:45,330 --> 00:05:48,292 Amerigo Dumini. An American. 79 00:05:48,414 --> 00:05:51,876 But he chose to fight for Italy. 80 00:05:51,997 --> 00:05:55,542 Assault battalion and the death company. 81 00:05:55,663 --> 00:05:57,665 ♪ We're pride...♪ 82 00:05:57,788 --> 00:06:00,875 In this rotten time of peace, 83 00:06:00,996 --> 00:06:04,207 these men of war, who have no place in the world, 84 00:06:04,329 --> 00:06:07,624 discharged on the spot as one dismisses a servant, 85 00:06:07,746 --> 00:06:09,622 they are my men. 86 00:06:09,746 --> 00:06:13,207 I can feel their anger, their hatred. 87 00:06:13,329 --> 00:06:17,083 I only have them and they only have me. 88 00:06:17,204 --> 00:06:19,623 ♪ With hand grenades! ♪ 89 00:06:19,746 --> 00:06:21,581 History is made with cheap material, 90 00:06:21,704 --> 00:06:23,372 with humanity's outcasts, 91 00:06:23,495 --> 00:06:26,041 with the bottom of the barrel. 92 00:06:26,120 --> 00:06:27,955 You inflame their anger, 93 00:06:28,036 --> 00:06:31,290 arm them with bombs and guns. 94 00:06:31,412 --> 00:06:35,249 It's with them that I will start a revolution. 95 00:06:38,745 --> 00:06:42,373 ♪ Armed to the teeth with hand grenades! ♪ 96 00:06:55,660 --> 00:07:00,790 We pushed this country into war 97 00:07:00,910 --> 00:07:03,288 and led it to victory. 98 00:07:03,618 --> 00:07:07,122 We shed our blood for our homeland. 99 00:07:07,577 --> 00:07:12,165 And today, we create the Fasces of Combat, 100 00:07:12,702 --> 00:07:16,956 for the future, the vanguard, the revolution! 101 00:07:17,951 --> 00:07:21,371 Today, fascism is born. 102 00:07:21,492 --> 00:07:24,162 ALL: Yes! 103 00:07:35,117 --> 00:07:38,287 Fascism is a beautiful creature, 104 00:07:38,742 --> 00:07:42,370 made up of dreams, ideals, courage, and change, 105 00:07:42,783 --> 00:07:45,536 that will conquer millions and millions of hearts. 106 00:07:45,658 --> 00:07:47,869 Yours too, I'm sure. 107 00:07:48,491 --> 00:07:50,034 Follow me. 108 00:07:50,158 --> 00:07:51,743 You'll love me, too. 109 00:07:52,116 --> 00:07:54,785 You'll become fascists too. 110 00:08:02,907 --> 00:08:05,076 CESARE: I'd say we were about 80. 111 00:08:05,199 --> 00:08:07,326 Good thing we took the smaller room. 112 00:08:07,449 --> 00:08:08,783 Still plenty of space. 113 00:08:08,907 --> 00:08:12,161 M: If we were still at war, I'd shoot you for defeatism. 114 00:08:12,282 --> 00:08:15,618 CESARE: Admit it, Benito. You also expected more 115 00:08:15,741 --> 00:08:18,910 - than those airheads. - It's not about the heads. 116 00:08:19,033 --> 00:08:20,700 It's about the hearts. 117 00:08:20,823 --> 00:08:22,533 Good evening. 118 00:08:23,031 --> 00:08:24,992 You can't look forward. 119 00:08:25,073 --> 00:08:27,159 We built a home for our people. 120 00:08:27,282 --> 00:08:30,535 There was plenty of space? Better. There's room for others. 121 00:08:32,115 --> 00:08:33,992 ALBINO: Cesare, one day, 122 00:08:34,073 --> 00:08:35,950 not even Piazza Duomo will be enough. 123 00:08:36,031 --> 00:08:37,533 Am I right or not? 124 00:08:38,114 --> 00:08:40,032 100, 200 new members. 125 00:08:40,156 --> 00:08:44,410 And that's a low estimate. There are millions angry like beasts. 126 00:08:47,822 --> 00:08:50,658 - MAN: Mussolini is here. - What the fuck did he want? 127 00:08:50,780 --> 00:08:52,033 You'll see. 128 00:08:54,530 --> 00:08:55,990 Cesare Rossi. 129 00:08:56,905 --> 00:08:59,199 A unionist and a revolutionary. 130 00:08:59,989 --> 00:09:03,242 He has the smallest hands I've ever seen in my life. 131 00:09:03,405 --> 00:09:06,241 We want to occupy with our power... 132 00:09:06,363 --> 00:09:08,365 I can't imagine his cock, 133 00:09:08,488 --> 00:09:11,950 But as for his brain, that is quite big. 134 00:09:12,363 --> 00:09:15,658 But you don't need his brain to figure out who that was. 135 00:09:15,779 --> 00:09:18,115 Mussolini, you wanted war and you got it. 136 00:09:18,238 --> 00:09:20,782 - Happy? - Poor thing, he got hurt. 137 00:09:22,571 --> 00:09:24,322 - In training, though. - (PEOPLE LAUGHING) 138 00:09:24,446 --> 00:09:26,197 He finished his war in the hospital. 139 00:09:26,320 --> 00:09:30,034 Poor thing, he couldn't get out of bed. 140 00:09:30,237 --> 00:09:32,489 - To the traitor! - To the traitor! 141 00:09:32,612 --> 00:09:35,240 - Socialists. - Socialists. 142 00:09:35,987 --> 00:09:39,407 Followers of the man that two years ago, in Russia, 143 00:09:39,528 --> 00:09:40,904 kicked out the tzar. 144 00:09:41,030 --> 00:09:44,198 The great Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov, better known as Lenin. 145 00:09:44,319 --> 00:09:46,655 To Mussolini, the traitor! 146 00:09:46,778 --> 00:09:48,864 MAN 1: To the traitor! MAN 2: To the traitor! 147 00:09:50,278 --> 00:09:53,740 Brotherhood, equality, power to people... 148 00:09:54,236 --> 00:09:56,196 Well, there might be some good people 149 00:09:56,319 --> 00:09:59,740 that cares about workers, the last, the exploited. 150 00:09:59,861 --> 00:10:01,028 MAN 3: Socialist traitor. 151 00:10:01,153 --> 00:10:03,613 They know plenty of big words, 152 00:10:03,736 --> 00:10:06,905 but hard facts, very few. 153 00:10:07,569 --> 00:10:08,987 And I should know. 154 00:10:09,610 --> 00:10:11,362 I was one of them. 155 00:10:11,485 --> 00:10:15,322 MAN 4: ♪ Forward people towards redemption 156 00:10:15,444 --> 00:10:19,531 ♪ Red flag, red flag 157 00:10:19,901 --> 00:10:23,822 ♪ Forward people towards redemption 158 00:10:23,943 --> 00:10:27,572 OTHERS: (JOINING IN) ♪ Red flag will triumph 159 00:10:28,068 --> 00:10:31,739 ♪ Red flag will be triumphant 160 00:10:32,192 --> 00:10:35,988 ♪ Red flag will be triumphant 161 00:10:36,317 --> 00:10:39,904 ♪ Red flag will be triumphant 162 00:10:40,025 --> 00:10:44,280 ♪ Hurray to socialism and freedom! 163 00:10:44,483 --> 00:10:48,529 ♪ Forward people the cannon thunders 164 00:10:48,650 --> 00:10:52,821 ♪ Revolution, revolution 165 00:10:52,942 --> 00:10:57,031 ♪ Forward people the cannon thunders 166 00:10:57,108 --> 00:11:00,945 ♪ Revolution we want to make 167 00:11:01,191 --> 00:11:05,404 ♪ Revolution we want to make 168 00:11:05,524 --> 00:11:09,278 ♪ Revolution we want to make 169 00:11:09,399 --> 00:11:13,486 ♪ Revolution we want to make 170 00:11:13,607 --> 00:11:17,778 ♪ Hurray to socialism and freedom! 171 00:11:17,899 --> 00:11:21,695 ♪ From the country to the sea To the mine 172 00:11:21,815 --> 00:11:25,652 ♪ Red flags, red flags 173 00:11:25,773 --> 00:11:31,028 ♪ From the country to the sea To the mine... ♪ 174 00:11:31,149 --> 00:11:33,860 (MEN CLAMORING ANGRILY) 175 00:11:35,523 --> 00:11:38,860 (HUMMING ALONG TO SINGING) 176 00:12:12,188 --> 00:12:14,441 Savage. Fluid. 177 00:12:14,563 --> 00:12:16,189 Necessary. 178 00:12:16,313 --> 00:12:18,816 That's how violence should always be. 179 00:12:19,023 --> 00:12:22,567 - (LAUGHING) - (MAN GRUNTING) 180 00:12:37,312 --> 00:12:38,605 It'll triumph. 181 00:12:42,562 --> 00:12:44,689 - Here we are! - Here we go! 182 00:12:52,645 --> 00:12:54,522 MAN: Good evening. Have a seat. 183 00:12:57,936 --> 00:12:59,980 Benito, tell me something. 184 00:13:00,061 --> 00:13:01,354 Was fascism born for the revolution 185 00:13:01,519 --> 00:13:03,020 or to beat up socialists? 186 00:13:03,145 --> 00:13:03,979 You're still bothered by them. 187 00:13:04,061 --> 00:13:05,563 M: Stai bon'! 188 00:13:05,686 --> 00:13:08,981 I'm not bothered, I don't give a damn about socialists. 189 00:13:09,060 --> 00:13:10,562 - Good evening. - Good evening. 190 00:13:10,686 --> 00:13:11,687 I've got my people. 191 00:13:11,811 --> 00:13:15,356 A people who will include workers, laborers. 192 00:13:15,477 --> 00:13:18,939 With them, we'll beat this putrid liberal democracy. 193 00:13:19,018 --> 00:13:21,563 - Where are you going? - To wage war to the world. 194 00:13:21,685 --> 00:13:24,938 War isn't over. Not for us. We are war. 195 00:13:25,018 --> 00:13:26,603 Goodnight, Cesarino. 196 00:13:28,685 --> 00:13:30,145 Margherita, 197 00:13:30,852 --> 00:13:33,438 the only woman in the world that I listen to. 198 00:13:35,435 --> 00:13:38,521 Rich, cultured, refined. 199 00:13:38,934 --> 00:13:39,935 And she's mine. 200 00:13:44,642 --> 00:13:46,310 So what do you think? 201 00:13:48,059 --> 00:13:50,270 MARGUERITA: Do you know what I like the most? 202 00:13:51,767 --> 00:13:53,686 "We ask." 203 00:13:54,225 --> 00:13:55,476 We ask. 204 00:13:56,475 --> 00:13:59,395 M: What about what we ask? Don't you like that? 205 00:14:00,225 --> 00:14:02,936 Nationalization, expropriation, 206 00:14:03,016 --> 00:14:04,727 confiscation of Church properties, 207 00:14:04,850 --> 00:14:06,935 workers running the factories. 208 00:14:07,016 --> 00:14:09,769 You're farther left than the socialists. 209 00:14:10,599 --> 00:14:13,477 Except the socialists will never actually do it. 210 00:14:13,599 --> 00:14:16,477 They make promises, but they don't have the guts. 211 00:14:16,599 --> 00:14:18,852 A never-ending wait for revolution. 212 00:14:20,015 --> 00:14:21,475 We demand. 213 00:14:23,641 --> 00:14:25,059 M: We demand? 214 00:14:28,849 --> 00:14:31,977 My savage doesn't ask. My savage takes. 215 00:14:33,057 --> 00:14:34,350 We demand. 216 00:14:39,306 --> 00:14:40,433 WE DEMAND 217 00:14:40,557 --> 00:14:42,142 (MARGHERITA MOANS) 218 00:14:42,931 --> 00:14:44,266 WE DEMAND 219 00:14:45,765 --> 00:14:47,892 WE DEMAND 220 00:14:49,348 --> 00:14:51,892 WE DEMAND 221 00:14:53,181 --> 00:14:54,683 M: We demand. 222 00:14:54,806 --> 00:14:57,100 And what we demand, we shout. 223 00:14:57,223 --> 00:15:00,017 And what we demand, we pursue to death. 224 00:15:00,139 --> 00:15:01,974 Without countless "ifs" or "buts". 225 00:15:02,055 --> 00:15:03,473 The endless flaccid distinctions 226 00:15:03,597 --> 00:15:06,726 and the babble of socialist theater. 227 00:15:06,847 --> 00:15:09,391 This is how you make politics, 228 00:15:09,514 --> 00:15:10,807 and this is how you make a newspaper. 229 00:15:10,930 --> 00:15:12,016 My newspaper. 230 00:15:12,097 --> 00:15:13,640 Il Popolo d'Italia. 231 00:15:13,805 --> 00:15:16,516 Headlines in block letters, buzzwords, dry, 232 00:15:16,638 --> 00:15:19,516 straight to the reader's belly. 233 00:15:20,430 --> 00:15:23,933 Not like L'Avanti, the ass wipe socialist paper. 234 00:15:24,430 --> 00:15:26,014 I used to run it. 235 00:15:27,221 --> 00:15:28,472 And then... 236 00:15:31,929 --> 00:15:33,139 NOVEMBER 24, 1914 237 00:15:33,263 --> 00:15:37,016 - Go away! Traitor! - Today, you hate me 238 00:15:38,096 --> 00:15:40,014 because you still love me. 239 00:15:40,138 --> 00:15:42,515 Warmonger! Traitor! 240 00:15:42,637 --> 00:15:44,055 Go away! Go! 241 00:15:44,179 --> 00:15:45,222 Traitor! 242 00:15:45,512 --> 00:15:46,972 MAN: Down with war! 243 00:15:47,054 --> 00:15:49,056 It's cruelly ironic 244 00:15:49,512 --> 00:15:52,140 to shout "Down with war"... 245 00:15:55,137 --> 00:15:59,182 ...while people fight and die in the trenches. 246 00:16:02,262 --> 00:16:05,974 Socialism is something that takes roots in the blood. 247 00:16:06,053 --> 00:16:07,888 - Mussolini! - Traitor! 248 00:16:08,013 --> 00:16:09,012 Warmonger! 249 00:16:09,594 --> 00:16:12,723 Don't think that by tearing up my party membership, 250 00:16:12,845 --> 00:16:15,305 you will remove my socialist convictions. 251 00:16:15,428 --> 00:16:18,015 That you will prevent me from working 252 00:16:18,094 --> 00:16:19,429 for the cause of socialism 253 00:16:19,553 --> 00:16:21,096 and for the revolution! 254 00:16:21,219 --> 00:16:23,513 - Traitor! - I will tell you now. 255 00:16:23,635 --> 00:16:26,221 - Warmonger! - I will have no remission, 256 00:16:26,343 --> 00:16:27,678 no mercy 257 00:16:27,802 --> 00:16:28,678 for the reticent and the cowards. 258 00:16:28,802 --> 00:16:31,513 Out of the party! 259 00:16:31,635 --> 00:16:32,678 Traitor! 260 00:16:32,802 --> 00:16:33,845 Traitor! 261 00:16:33,969 --> 00:16:36,012 I gave you 12 years of my life. 262 00:16:36,510 --> 00:16:37,886 MAN: Warmonger! Out! 263 00:16:38,176 --> 00:16:39,553 Twelve years! 264 00:16:40,801 --> 00:16:44,847 I will have no mercy for the reticent and the cowards. 265 00:16:56,008 --> 00:16:58,428 MAN 1: Good evening, chickens! 266 00:16:58,801 --> 00:17:00,678 Chickens! 267 00:17:01,217 --> 00:17:02,969 MAN 2: Come on, cowards! 268 00:17:03,050 --> 00:17:04,427 Come on! 269 00:17:04,551 --> 00:17:05,760 Let's go! 270 00:17:08,758 --> 00:17:10,135 Bastards! 271 00:17:45,965 --> 00:17:48,300 Tonight's top story. 272 00:17:48,424 --> 00:17:50,092 L'Avanti burns. 273 00:17:51,215 --> 00:17:52,800 No! No! No! 274 00:18:15,007 --> 00:18:16,340 CROWD: (SINGING) ♪ L'Avanti is no more! 275 00:18:17,089 --> 00:18:18,465 ♪ L'Avanti is no more! 276 00:18:19,256 --> 00:18:20,632 ♪ L'Avanti is no more! 277 00:18:21,338 --> 00:18:22,715 ♪ L'Avanti is no more! 278 00:18:23,338 --> 00:18:24,715 ♪ L'Avanti is no more! 279 00:18:25,296 --> 00:18:26,673 ♪ Avanti is no more! 280 00:18:27,547 --> 00:18:28,923 ♪ Avanti is no more! ♪ 281 00:18:29,463 --> 00:18:31,757 - ♪ Avanti is no more! ♪ - MAN: Mussolini! 282 00:18:31,879 --> 00:18:33,214 ♪ Avanti is no more! ♪ 283 00:18:33,796 --> 00:18:35,131 ♪ Avanti is no more! ♪ 284 00:18:35,505 --> 00:18:37,674 - ♪ Avanti is no more! ♪ - Mussolini! 285 00:18:37,796 --> 00:18:39,965 - ♪ Avanti is no more! ♪ - Mussolini! 286 00:18:40,046 --> 00:18:41,423 ♪ Avanti is no more! ♪ 287 00:18:42,255 --> 00:18:43,631 ♪ Avanti is no more! ♪ 288 00:18:44,130 --> 00:18:45,506 ♪ Avanti is no more! ♪ 289 00:18:46,004 --> 00:18:47,381 ♪ Avanti is no more! ♪ 290 00:18:48,212 --> 00:18:49,588 ♪ Avanti is no more! ♪ 291 00:18:50,254 --> 00:18:51,630 ♪ Avanti is no more! ♪ 292 00:18:52,379 --> 00:18:53,755 ♪ Avanti is no more! ♪ 293 00:18:54,587 --> 00:18:55,964 ♪ Avanti is no more! ♪ 294 00:18:56,712 --> 00:18:58,046 ♪ Avanti is no more! ♪ 295 00:18:58,837 --> 00:19:00,171 ♪ Avanti is no more! ♪ 296 00:19:12,253 --> 00:19:15,131 That's the first act of the civil war! 297 00:19:15,253 --> 00:19:19,716 ALL: (CHEERING) Long live Mussolini! 298 00:19:19,836 --> 00:19:21,587 Long live Mussolini! 299 00:19:23,794 --> 00:19:25,129 Long live Mussolini! 300 00:19:42,960 --> 00:19:44,586 GABRIELE D'ANNUNZIO: "Dear Mussolini, 301 00:19:44,918 --> 00:19:46,503 the die is cast. 302 00:19:47,252 --> 00:19:48,670 I'm departing now. 303 00:19:49,418 --> 00:19:52,254 Tomorrow morning, I'll take Fiume by force. 304 00:19:53,960 --> 00:19:56,003 May the God of Italy assist us. 305 00:19:56,418 --> 00:19:58,086 I am feverish. 306 00:19:58,209 --> 00:20:00,503 But it's impossible to postpone. 307 00:20:00,626 --> 00:20:03,212 Once again, the spirit will dominate 308 00:20:03,834 --> 00:20:05,669 the miserable flesh." 309 00:20:11,167 --> 00:20:13,002 M: No! No! No! 310 00:20:13,126 --> 00:20:14,377 For God's sake! 311 00:20:15,002 --> 00:20:16,460 Dickhead! 312 00:20:24,001 --> 00:20:25,668 Gabriele D'Annunzio. 313 00:20:25,833 --> 00:20:27,084 Great poet, 314 00:20:27,208 --> 00:20:29,168 hedonist, refined esthete. 315 00:20:29,291 --> 00:20:33,421 Triumphant seducer, flying ace, and war hero. 316 00:20:33,916 --> 00:20:36,794 The most famous living Italian in the world. 317 00:20:37,541 --> 00:20:39,418 My people adore him. 318 00:20:39,541 --> 00:20:41,084 They worship him. 319 00:20:41,708 --> 00:20:43,793 How could they not? 320 00:20:44,040 --> 00:20:45,333 He's a superman. 321 00:20:46,040 --> 00:20:49,085 A man who flew into Vienna in the middle of the war, 322 00:20:49,207 --> 00:20:51,793 dropping thousands of tricolor leaflets. 323 00:20:54,290 --> 00:20:56,376 And what's the superman doing now? 324 00:20:56,707 --> 00:20:58,041 He's going to Fiume. 325 00:20:59,248 --> 00:21:00,499 What's Fiume? 326 00:21:01,664 --> 00:21:03,457 An unknown continent? 327 00:21:03,579 --> 00:21:05,790 Atlantis, Eldorado, 328 00:21:05,913 --> 00:21:07,373 a tax haven? 329 00:21:08,454 --> 00:21:09,580 No. 330 00:21:12,203 --> 00:21:14,414 It's a rock on the Adriatic Sea. 331 00:21:14,536 --> 00:21:17,747 A useless outpost on the homeland's eastern borders, 332 00:21:17,868 --> 00:21:20,996 a clump of houses no one would give a fuck about 333 00:21:21,743 --> 00:21:23,997 if it hadn't become a symbol. 334 00:21:25,492 --> 00:21:27,619 At the end of the war, 335 00:21:27,741 --> 00:21:29,660 the Allies were supposed to give it to Italy, 336 00:21:29,783 --> 00:21:31,284 but they didn't. 337 00:21:34,282 --> 00:21:36,034 They gave it to the Yugoslavs. 338 00:21:36,156 --> 00:21:38,909 And what does our government do? Nothing. 339 00:21:39,906 --> 00:21:43,576 So we started to shout, 340 00:21:44,322 --> 00:21:48,618 What was the point of fighting, dying, and winning? 341 00:21:49,612 --> 00:21:53,241 A magnificent expression was coined for it 342 00:21:53,778 --> 00:21:56,989 that stirred people's hearts with patriotism. 343 00:22:02,568 --> 00:22:04,821 Mutilated victory. 344 00:22:06,359 --> 00:22:08,528 A mutilated victory. 345 00:22:11,441 --> 00:22:13,610 Sadly, I didn't come up with it. 346 00:22:16,232 --> 00:22:17,608 He did. 347 00:22:18,648 --> 00:22:22,235 Always him. And now he's going to get it back. 348 00:22:22,356 --> 00:22:25,943 A new, sensational act of heroism. 349 00:22:26,022 --> 00:22:28,191 - (KNOCKING ON DOOR) - You can't come in. 350 00:22:30,646 --> 00:22:32,981 D'Annunzio left for Fiume. 351 00:22:33,104 --> 00:22:36,148 - He wants it back. - What a extraordinary man. 352 00:22:36,436 --> 00:22:37,979 Don't joke, Margherita. 353 00:22:38,103 --> 00:22:41,231 Do you know what happened seven years ago? 354 00:22:48,725 --> 00:22:51,853 I chose you and rejected him. 355 00:22:52,433 --> 00:22:54,644 The savage, not the poet. 356 00:22:56,808 --> 00:22:58,810 And I've never regretted it. 357 00:22:59,640 --> 00:23:01,392 Don't be jealous. 358 00:23:04,681 --> 00:23:07,266 I'm not jealous, you cretin. 359 00:23:08,389 --> 00:23:10,766 He treats me like a child, steals my spotlight 360 00:23:10,888 --> 00:23:13,432 just when I've launched my creation. 361 00:23:13,554 --> 00:23:16,808 You are jealous, but not of me. 362 00:23:27,426 --> 00:23:29,595 - Either Fiume... - Or death! 363 00:23:30,425 --> 00:23:32,177 - Either Fiume... - Or death! 364 00:23:32,841 --> 00:23:34,927 - Either Fiume... - Or death! 365 00:23:39,590 --> 00:23:41,967 If he pulls this off, it's a disaster for me. 366 00:23:42,090 --> 00:23:44,092 I have a hundred misfits in a small room 367 00:23:44,215 --> 00:23:45,466 and he takes a city. 368 00:23:45,589 --> 00:23:47,591 But the army is there, right? 369 00:23:48,672 --> 00:23:50,965 How will he get past the barricade? 370 00:23:51,089 --> 00:23:53,716 They'll stop him. They have to stop him. 371 00:23:55,504 --> 00:23:58,131 They'll stop him and push him back. 372 00:23:58,711 --> 00:24:00,505 (INTENSE MUSIC PLAYING) 373 00:24:40,953 --> 00:24:42,664 - General. - Commander. 374 00:24:42,787 --> 00:24:44,914 I must order you to turn back. 375 00:24:44,994 --> 00:24:47,246 My love for my homeland prevents me from obeying you. 376 00:24:47,369 --> 00:24:49,079 Homeland is best served by respecting 377 00:24:49,202 --> 00:24:50,578 the authority of the state. 378 00:24:51,368 --> 00:24:54,956 Go ahead then. Shoot on these medals. 379 00:24:57,951 --> 00:25:01,078 He just rolled into Fiume without firing a shot. 380 00:25:01,199 --> 00:25:03,159 They say through a huge crowd. 381 00:25:03,282 --> 00:25:04,784 Everybody wants to go. 382 00:25:05,282 --> 00:25:08,619 There. My lost people are more his than mine. 383 00:25:09,365 --> 00:25:11,992 Jealous? Of course I'm jealous. 384 00:25:13,696 --> 00:25:15,531 They also say he has a... 385 00:25:20,403 --> 00:25:23,323 No way. He must have put a fucking eggplant in there! 386 00:25:23,736 --> 00:25:26,030 The Fasces of Combat should be there, 387 00:25:26,153 --> 00:25:27,738 in Fiume, with D'Annunzio. 388 00:25:27,860 --> 00:25:32,114 My place is anywhere but there, in the shadow of the superman. 389 00:25:32,234 --> 00:25:35,321 If he rolled into Fiume through a huge crowd, 390 00:25:35,442 --> 00:25:38,111 then it's not men he needs, right? 391 00:25:39,150 --> 00:25:41,027 The government will react... 392 00:25:41,150 --> 00:25:42,193 If they crush him, 393 00:25:42,316 --> 00:25:44,610 I'll be crushed with him if I'm there. 394 00:25:44,732 --> 00:25:46,233 A subscription. 395 00:25:47,106 --> 00:25:49,859 We'll launch a subscription in the newspaper 396 00:25:49,939 --> 00:25:52,692 in support of the heroic deeds in Fiume. 397 00:25:53,606 --> 00:25:54,942 It's fucking right. 398 00:25:55,022 --> 00:25:57,483 A nice subscription. 399 00:25:59,063 --> 00:26:01,565 Rule number one of a good politician. 400 00:26:01,687 --> 00:26:05,524 If you don't know how something will end, don't make a move. 401 00:26:05,645 --> 00:26:07,647 Bide your time. 402 00:26:08,186 --> 00:26:10,396 Cesarino knows that, he's smart. 403 00:26:10,518 --> 00:26:12,270 Sooner or later, I'll kill him. 404 00:26:13,435 --> 00:26:14,603 I'm kidding. 405 00:26:15,976 --> 00:26:17,394 Well said, Cesarino. 406 00:26:18,935 --> 00:26:20,810 I didn't even recognize him. 407 00:26:20,935 --> 00:26:25,438 So thin and drawn, his groomed mustache, dressed all in black. 408 00:26:25,557 --> 00:26:27,017 MAN 2: The count dressed like an undertaker? 409 00:26:27,140 --> 00:26:28,516 MAN 1: Not like an undertaker. 410 00:26:28,641 --> 00:26:31,435 - Like a fascist! - (ALL LAUGHING) 411 00:26:32,930 --> 00:26:34,599 This I had yet to hear. 412 00:26:34,722 --> 00:26:36,515 The count, a fascist. 413 00:26:37,347 --> 00:26:40,433 Did you hear? Your party has won over a count. 414 00:26:45,762 --> 00:26:47,096 Mussolini. 415 00:26:52,427 --> 00:26:54,638 We won over many people, 416 00:26:54,760 --> 00:26:57,596 but the Fasces of Combat are not a party. 417 00:26:57,718 --> 00:26:59,553 What are you then? 418 00:26:59,842 --> 00:27:01,677 We're an anti-party. 419 00:27:01,800 --> 00:27:03,802 But what does that mean exactly? 420 00:27:03,926 --> 00:27:05,760 We practice anti-politics. 421 00:27:05,883 --> 00:27:08,469 So, if I were to vote for you... 422 00:27:08,591 --> 00:27:10,801 We don't care about the electoral medal. 423 00:27:10,925 --> 00:27:12,175 We're against elections. 424 00:27:12,298 --> 00:27:15,801 - Against elections? - Yes, we're against elections. 425 00:27:15,924 --> 00:27:18,342 We're against this state. 426 00:27:18,464 --> 00:27:21,133 We're against the monarchy, against the church, 427 00:27:21,254 --> 00:27:23,840 against the capital, the great powers. 428 00:27:23,920 --> 00:27:27,591 - Against everything. - (ALL LAUGHING) 429 00:27:30,003 --> 00:27:31,921 You don't understand. 430 00:27:32,419 --> 00:27:34,630 Fascism is everything. 431 00:27:38,543 --> 00:27:40,670 And the opposite of everything. 432 00:27:42,542 --> 00:27:43,543 Sir. 433 00:27:44,583 --> 00:27:46,335 There's a samurai for you. 434 00:27:55,040 --> 00:27:57,459 For you, from the Commander. 435 00:28:00,164 --> 00:28:02,458 A letter from D'Annunzio. 436 00:28:03,996 --> 00:28:05,247 Excuse me. 437 00:28:06,495 --> 00:28:08,748 GABRIELE: "My dear Mussolini, 438 00:28:09,329 --> 00:28:11,414 you astonish me. 439 00:28:12,453 --> 00:28:14,580 I've risked everything, 440 00:28:14,702 --> 00:28:16,245 I gave everything, 441 00:28:16,368 --> 00:28:18,162 I've earned everything. 442 00:28:19,285 --> 00:28:23,331 I am the ruler of Fiume and of soldiers who will obey 443 00:28:23,451 --> 00:28:24,744 no one but me. 444 00:28:25,491 --> 00:28:28,036 Nothing can be done against me, 445 00:28:28,408 --> 00:28:31,244 no one can remove me from here. 446 00:28:31,866 --> 00:28:35,661 I have Fiume. I will hold onto Fiume for as long as I live. 447 00:28:36,032 --> 00:28:40,786 Indisputably. And you tremble with fear, 448 00:28:40,907 --> 00:28:45,493 capable only of a flaccid subscription." 449 00:28:47,404 --> 00:28:48,655 Excuse me. 450 00:28:50,362 --> 00:28:52,239 - I have to go. - Something serious? 451 00:28:52,361 --> 00:28:53,654 An anti-letter? 452 00:28:54,570 --> 00:28:57,615 The necessity to support Fiume and the Commander 453 00:28:57,737 --> 00:28:59,822 obliges me to return to the newspaper. 454 00:28:59,903 --> 00:29:01,280 If you'll excuse me. 455 00:29:06,155 --> 00:29:08,365 "You let the most abject swindler 456 00:29:08,488 --> 00:29:10,907 in the history of universal scum 457 00:29:11,031 --> 00:29:15,493 put his swinish foot on your neck, 458 00:29:15,615 --> 00:29:17,116 the Slug." 459 00:29:17,240 --> 00:29:20,410 M: He's talking about Nitti, the head of the government. 460 00:29:20,532 --> 00:29:23,660 An old tool, a relic from the last century. 461 00:29:24,116 --> 00:29:25,534 GABRIELE: The Slug. 462 00:29:25,782 --> 00:29:27,618 "Any other country would have overthrown him. 463 00:29:27,742 --> 00:29:30,453 But you just dawdle, 464 00:29:30,575 --> 00:29:33,453 settling old scores with the socialists 465 00:29:33,576 --> 00:29:34,702 while we fight, moment after moment 466 00:29:34,826 --> 00:29:36,328 against this cowardly government. 467 00:29:36,492 --> 00:29:38,911 Where are the fascists? 468 00:29:39,035 --> 00:29:40,036 The Arditi, the volunteers, the Futurists! 469 00:29:40,243 --> 00:29:43,747 Wake up! Shame on you! Pierce at least the belly 470 00:29:43,869 --> 00:29:45,370 that weights you down 471 00:29:45,494 --> 00:29:46,996 and deflate it. 472 00:29:47,119 --> 00:29:49,915 Or I'll come when I've consolidated my power. 473 00:29:49,995 --> 00:29:52,456 But I won't look you in the eye... 474 00:29:55,371 --> 00:29:58,625 Go on, revel in despair, 475 00:29:58,747 --> 00:30:02,834 lazy pigs of your eternal siesta. 476 00:30:03,706 --> 00:30:04,749 Lazy! 477 00:30:08,831 --> 00:30:11,959 What do you want to do? The Fasces are on his side. 478 00:30:12,082 --> 00:30:14,001 Those not in Fiume, would like to be. 479 00:30:14,917 --> 00:30:17,126 What happened after the great poet-flying 480 00:30:17,249 --> 00:30:19,335 ace-war hero took Fiume? 481 00:30:19,666 --> 00:30:22,127 Did Italy rise up? Did the government fall? 482 00:30:22,250 --> 00:30:25,170 Nothing, Cesarino. Nothing happened. 483 00:30:25,292 --> 00:30:27,002 We only sold more copies. 484 00:30:27,501 --> 00:30:30,379 I've never seen a revolution begin in some tiny town 485 00:30:30,501 --> 00:30:32,795 1,000 miles from the center of the country. 486 00:30:33,085 --> 00:30:36,005 It's as if to take Moscow, Lenin started from Siberia. 487 00:30:36,127 --> 00:30:37,795 True, but... 488 00:30:37,921 --> 00:30:42,382 One word from poet-flying ace-war hero, 489 00:30:42,503 --> 00:30:45,006 - our men would turn on us. - ...my men would turn on me. 490 00:30:50,421 --> 00:30:51,547 Hey! 491 00:30:54,631 --> 00:30:56,215 Publish the letter tomorrow. 492 00:30:56,339 --> 00:30:59,592 - With all the insults? - Duly revised. 493 00:31:04,007 --> 00:31:04,841 Headline: 494 00:31:06,424 --> 00:31:09,427 "D'Annunzio asks Mussolini to help him. 495 00:31:13,884 --> 00:31:17,054 And Mussolini goes to Fiume, in person." 496 00:31:19,676 --> 00:31:22,804 Election campaign. We vote in a month. 497 00:31:23,510 --> 00:31:26,096 Benito, we're against elections. 498 00:31:26,218 --> 00:31:29,180 We were against. We were. You don't keep up! 499 00:31:29,303 --> 00:31:32,473 Only mules and bollard don't change their minds. 500 00:31:33,095 --> 00:31:34,930 We get out of D'Annunzio shadow, 501 00:31:35,054 --> 00:31:37,806 we spread, change the playing field. 502 00:31:38,638 --> 00:31:40,640 So you're going to Fiume... 503 00:31:42,013 --> 00:31:44,932 Call the Fasces for a congress. We will announce it. 504 00:31:45,139 --> 00:31:46,724 With the poet's blessing, 505 00:31:46,847 --> 00:31:49,683 those who love him will vote for me. 506 00:31:58,807 --> 00:31:59,892 Flying. 507 00:32:00,932 --> 00:32:05,646 Only an idiot would deny the divine nature of flying. 508 00:32:05,808 --> 00:32:09,020 No more the fratricidal domain of man over man, 509 00:32:09,142 --> 00:32:13,021 but man's dominion over nature, over the universe. 510 00:32:13,809 --> 00:32:16,395 A pilot is a superior creature, 511 00:32:16,518 --> 00:32:18,479 a discoverer of new worlds. 512 00:32:20,436 --> 00:32:22,355 So, how are we doing? 513 00:32:22,561 --> 00:32:24,813 - All good. - Good. 514 00:32:25,312 --> 00:32:26,313 Good. 515 00:32:43,106 --> 00:32:46,276 Commander, at last. 516 00:33:04,109 --> 00:33:05,778 Mussolini. 517 00:33:06,568 --> 00:33:07,944 At last. 518 00:33:09,152 --> 00:33:10,904 I flew, Commander, 519 00:33:10,986 --> 00:33:12,738 to get here as soon as possible. 520 00:33:13,362 --> 00:33:15,949 As soon as your emissary delivered your letter. 521 00:33:16,737 --> 00:33:20,783 My comrade Samurai, a valiant and literal combatant, 522 00:33:20,987 --> 00:33:22,864 and a poet himself, 523 00:33:24,072 --> 00:33:26,157 has been back here for days. 524 00:33:27,113 --> 00:33:29,199 As soon as I could, Commander. 525 00:33:29,322 --> 00:33:31,949 As soon as I could. 526 00:33:32,406 --> 00:33:36,410 But what I see here repays me for the impatience I endured. 527 00:33:36,950 --> 00:33:38,950 As a patriot, combatant, and fascist, 528 00:33:39,074 --> 00:33:41,451 I only have one thing to say. 529 00:33:43,991 --> 00:33:45,076 Thank you. 530 00:33:45,991 --> 00:33:48,661 If at least half of Italy resembled the people of Fiume, 531 00:33:48,784 --> 00:33:50,410 we would rule the world. 532 00:33:52,034 --> 00:33:53,744 I'm ready for anything. 533 00:33:53,868 --> 00:33:55,745 But we need to understand each other. 534 00:33:56,160 --> 00:33:59,538 We must clarify our political goals. 535 00:34:00,243 --> 00:34:02,621 (SCOFFS) "Political goals." 536 00:34:04,411 --> 00:34:05,704 With the ships of that slug Nitti 537 00:34:05,828 --> 00:34:08,665 pointing their cannons at us? 538 00:34:10,912 --> 00:34:12,872 Fiume is nothing more 539 00:34:13,704 --> 00:34:17,833 than a solitary peak of heroism where death will be sweet 540 00:34:18,538 --> 00:34:21,625 after a last sip of her water. 541 00:34:33,499 --> 00:34:37,586 If this city is not returned to the homeland in ten days, 542 00:34:37,708 --> 00:34:40,044 I will cast the dice one more time. 543 00:34:41,750 --> 00:34:45,962 Should this martyred city be martyred again, I will avenge it 544 00:34:46,085 --> 00:34:48,253 with a huge reprisal. 545 00:34:48,377 --> 00:34:49,503 Commander, 546 00:34:50,293 --> 00:34:54,839 we can halt the hand of the Slug on November 16th. 547 00:34:56,336 --> 00:34:57,629 With the elections. 548 00:34:59,295 --> 00:35:01,047 "Elections." 549 00:35:01,837 --> 00:35:05,633 There'll be a landslide victory for Fiume. 550 00:35:06,088 --> 00:35:07,881 "Elections." 551 00:35:08,505 --> 00:35:12,425 While this adorable people is impoverished and tortured, 552 00:35:12,922 --> 00:35:15,968 you're only capable of resignation. 553 00:35:16,881 --> 00:35:19,884 Resignation? On the contrary, Commander. 554 00:35:20,090 --> 00:35:22,509 I say we take the struggle, 555 00:35:22,632 --> 00:35:25,343 the energy of Fiume to Parliament. 556 00:35:25,591 --> 00:35:28,552 The legionnaires here, the fascists in Rome. 557 00:35:28,675 --> 00:35:29,967 Like claws. 558 00:35:33,676 --> 00:35:35,219 Speaking of which... 559 00:35:37,635 --> 00:35:39,095 Speaking of which, 560 00:35:39,885 --> 00:35:41,512 to encourage the voters, 561 00:35:42,052 --> 00:35:45,514 perhaps you might furnish me with a message. 562 00:35:47,719 --> 00:35:51,723 The fight revolves mostly around your name, you know. 563 00:35:52,387 --> 00:35:55,556 You'll be leader of our rallies. 564 00:35:58,013 --> 00:36:00,599 You have my absolute devotion. 565 00:36:02,597 --> 00:36:05,058 Vanity is his Achilles' heel. 566 00:36:08,931 --> 00:36:09,932 No. 567 00:36:11,765 --> 00:36:12,766 No? 568 00:36:14,975 --> 00:36:15,976 No. 569 00:36:18,849 --> 00:36:21,018 You will never convince real Italians 570 00:36:21,141 --> 00:36:23,644 to draw a cowardly cross on a ballot. 571 00:36:28,267 --> 00:36:30,770 The Arditi dare, they don't conspire. 572 00:36:31,768 --> 00:36:33,853 The Arditi fight, they battle, 573 00:36:33,978 --> 00:36:35,978 they face the enemy hand-to-hand, 574 00:36:36,103 --> 00:36:37,896 with a knife between their teeth. 575 00:36:40,937 --> 00:36:44,565 For the country, the glory, and the honor, until death. 576 00:36:47,104 --> 00:36:48,313 To whom, death? 577 00:36:50,938 --> 00:36:52,314 To whom, death? 578 00:36:54,105 --> 00:36:55,523 To whom, death? 579 00:36:55,647 --> 00:36:57,107 Commander, I don't... 580 00:36:57,231 --> 00:36:59,733 To us. To whom, death? 581 00:36:59,856 --> 00:37:02,109 - To us. - To whom, death? 582 00:37:02,232 --> 00:37:03,316 To us. 583 00:37:03,440 --> 00:37:05,317 {\an8}- To whom, death? - To us! 584 00:37:21,859 --> 00:37:23,403 {\an8}- Go higher! - What? 585 00:37:23,610 --> 00:37:25,404 {\an8}Go higher. The police! 586 00:37:26,568 --> 00:37:29,363 - We can't! - It's the police, Lombardi! 587 00:37:29,528 --> 00:37:32,406 We can't. We're running out of fuel. 588 00:37:32,988 --> 00:37:35,197 Come on. Come on. Faster! Faster! 589 00:37:37,153 --> 00:37:39,114 Land now! Come down! 590 00:37:39,405 --> 00:37:40,739 Come down! 591 00:37:41,238 --> 00:37:42,572 Come down! 592 00:37:46,613 --> 00:37:49,866 For fuck's sake, Lombardi. For fuck's sake! 593 00:37:50,489 --> 00:37:51,824 They'll arrest us. 594 00:38:02,324 --> 00:38:06,745 This is simply abuse of power. I demand right now... 595 00:38:12,493 --> 00:38:13,494 General. 596 00:38:14,827 --> 00:38:16,495 General, I'm expected in Florence 597 00:38:16,618 --> 00:38:19,121 for the first congress of the Fasces of Combat. 598 00:38:19,244 --> 00:38:20,328 Wait. 599 00:38:23,120 --> 00:38:24,998 Mussolini, you know perfectly well 600 00:38:25,078 --> 00:38:27,789 the occupation of Fiume is illegal. 601 00:38:29,828 --> 00:38:31,579 Then why did you go there? 602 00:38:36,744 --> 00:38:38,538 {\an8}That's obvious, General. 603 00:38:42,078 --> 00:38:43,121 {\an8}Well? 604 00:38:44,996 --> 00:38:47,580 I went to leverage D'Annunzio's common sense, 605 00:38:47,703 --> 00:38:51,790 to find a compromise, to unravel the situation. 606 00:39:01,994 --> 00:39:05,998 FASCES OF COMBAT CONGRESS FLORENCE, OCTOBER 10, 1919 607 00:39:08,161 --> 00:39:10,288 (CHATTERING INDISTINCTLY) 608 00:39:19,328 --> 00:39:22,540 He never made it to the hotel, he didn't catch the 7:39 train. 609 00:39:22,661 --> 00:39:24,413 - Let's start. - Without him? 610 00:39:24,537 --> 00:39:26,999 Of course. What else? We send them home? 611 00:39:27,744 --> 00:39:30,122 - Go on. Don't waste time. - I can't make a speech. 612 00:39:30,245 --> 00:39:31,663 What do I say? 613 00:39:31,953 --> 00:39:34,122 I don't know. Improvise. 614 00:39:34,245 --> 00:39:35,998 You're the one who's good with words. 615 00:39:36,078 --> 00:39:37,371 That's not the point. 616 00:39:37,911 --> 00:39:39,871 (IN LATIN) Like rejoices in like. 617 00:39:39,996 --> 00:39:41,121 What? 618 00:39:41,328 --> 00:39:43,539 Dumini, they know you. 619 00:39:43,662 --> 00:39:46,998 You speak the same language. They respect you. 620 00:39:47,120 --> 00:39:50,498 Your audacity is worth more than my words. 621 00:39:50,620 --> 00:39:51,955 Come on, Dumini. 622 00:40:00,620 --> 00:40:04,207 (ALL APPLAUDING) 623 00:40:06,286 --> 00:40:07,705 Thank you. 624 00:40:08,911 --> 00:40:09,954 Thank you. 625 00:40:12,495 --> 00:40:15,206 Thanks to all the heroes here today. 626 00:40:17,036 --> 00:40:19,122 Thanks to men like Carlo Delcroix. 627 00:40:20,787 --> 00:40:22,580 - Bravo Delcroix. - Bravo. 628 00:40:22,704 --> 00:40:24,288 Fascist brothers! 629 00:40:25,537 --> 00:40:28,081 We, the mutilated, with our stumps, 630 00:40:28,578 --> 00:40:32,958 will sing a death sentence to every coward! 631 00:40:33,036 --> 00:40:36,915 MAN 1: Bravo. MAN 2: Death to cowards! 632 00:40:37,662 --> 00:40:38,663 AMERIGO: We... 633 00:40:40,328 --> 00:40:42,831 We that... 634 00:40:44,997 --> 00:40:45,996 We. 635 00:40:47,745 --> 00:40:51,290 We that pushed... For fuck's sake! 636 00:40:51,412 --> 00:40:53,330 (CROWD LAUGHING) 637 00:40:53,453 --> 00:40:56,998 We that pushed the country to war. 638 00:40:58,787 --> 00:40:59,830 We... 639 00:41:01,037 --> 00:41:02,122 We that shed... 640 00:41:02,245 --> 00:41:04,330 M: Fascist comrades! 641 00:41:04,704 --> 00:41:05,996 AMERIGO: For Benito Mussolini! 642 00:41:06,121 --> 00:41:08,498 - Eja! Eja! - Alalà! 643 00:41:08,620 --> 00:41:10,789 - Hey! Hey! - Alaa! 644 00:41:10,912 --> 00:41:13,039 Hey! Hey! Alas! 645 00:41:13,162 --> 00:41:15,415 Hey! Hey! Alas! 646 00:41:15,537 --> 00:41:17,664 Hey! Hey! Alas! 647 00:41:17,787 --> 00:41:19,999 Hey! Hey! Alas! 648 00:41:20,079 --> 00:41:22,206 Hey! Hey! Alas! 649 00:41:22,328 --> 00:41:24,372 Hey! Hey! Alas! 650 00:41:24,495 --> 00:41:26,622 Hey! Hey! Alas! 651 00:41:26,745 --> 00:41:28,747 Hey! Hey! Alas! 652 00:41:28,870 --> 00:41:30,997 Hey! Hey! Alas! 653 00:41:31,121 --> 00:41:33,415 Hey! Hey! Alas! 654 00:41:34,997 --> 00:41:38,708 Sorry if I'm late, but I just landed. 655 00:41:41,079 --> 00:41:42,497 I have just arrived 656 00:41:44,037 --> 00:41:45,163 from Fiume! 657 00:41:46,787 --> 00:41:49,873 - Long live D'Annunzio! - Long live D'Annunzio! 658 00:41:50,121 --> 00:41:53,708 - Long live D'Annunzio! - CROWD: Long live D'Annunzio! 659 00:42:00,995 --> 00:42:03,248 Yesterday at noon, 660 00:42:03,578 --> 00:42:06,540 we left by airplane, 661 00:42:06,662 --> 00:42:10,416 me and the brave lieutenant Carlo Lombardi, 662 00:42:10,537 --> 00:42:15,041 an heroic aviator who can boast 12 downed aircrafts 663 00:42:15,162 --> 00:42:16,997 and three medals of valor! 664 00:42:17,121 --> 00:42:19,790 - Long live Lombardi! - Long live Lombardi! 665 00:42:19,912 --> 00:42:22,456 - Bravo! - Bravo! 666 00:42:22,578 --> 00:42:24,999 At 13,000 feet, 667 00:42:25,787 --> 00:42:29,207 we were hit by a terrible storm. 668 00:42:29,329 --> 00:42:33,583 - The bora threatened us... - Down with the bora! 669 00:42:33,704 --> 00:42:35,831 - Come on, Cesarino. - Sit down. 670 00:42:38,745 --> 00:42:40,706 Calm down, Cesarino. Calm down. 671 00:42:42,204 --> 00:42:46,250 We broke through a dense curtain of clouds 672 00:42:46,371 --> 00:42:48,623 to emerge over Aiello. 673 00:42:49,037 --> 00:42:51,957 The roar of the engine attracted 674 00:42:52,037 --> 00:42:54,289 the attention of all the people 675 00:42:54,413 --> 00:42:58,917 as we landed on the airfield. 676 00:42:59,538 --> 00:43:02,582 Many shouted, "Stop!" 677 00:43:05,037 --> 00:43:06,706 I came down. 678 00:43:06,995 --> 00:43:12,376 And I personally faced the leaders of our armed forces. 679 00:43:12,496 --> 00:43:14,164 Do you know what I told them? 680 00:43:14,287 --> 00:43:15,622 CROWD: What? 681 00:43:15,746 --> 00:43:18,916 - Do you know what I told them? - CROWD: What? 682 00:43:18,995 --> 00:43:22,416 That we'll fight for Fiume to the death! 683 00:43:22,538 --> 00:43:25,249 CROWD: Yes! 684 00:43:28,162 --> 00:43:31,416 History is made with the outcasts, you know that? 685 00:43:31,663 --> 00:43:33,540 You inflame their anger, 686 00:43:33,663 --> 00:43:36,874 arm them with bombs and guns, 687 00:43:36,997 --> 00:43:40,624 and if necessary, ballot pencils. 688 00:43:48,871 --> 00:43:50,498 We'll fight in Fiume 689 00:43:51,538 --> 00:43:53,289 and in Parliament. 690 00:43:53,413 --> 00:43:57,001 - (CROWD MURMURING) - No, not in Parliament! 691 00:43:57,079 --> 00:44:00,833 Calm down! Calm down! Calm down! 692 00:44:01,246 --> 00:44:03,331 MAN: The Parliament makes us sick! 693 00:44:04,371 --> 00:44:06,456 In Parliament, 694 00:44:06,579 --> 00:44:10,625 we'll launch into the electoral campaign 695 00:44:10,746 --> 00:44:13,374 that will end on November 16th. 696 00:44:13,496 --> 00:44:15,998 - No! - We won't vote! 697 00:44:16,122 --> 00:44:18,457 M: We'll go to Rome. 698 00:44:18,996 --> 00:44:22,458 We'll go to Rome the way we went to war. 699 00:44:22,579 --> 00:44:26,875 And war will only end when we have swept away 700 00:44:26,998 --> 00:44:29,124 all the remnants of the past, 701 00:44:29,246 --> 00:44:33,001 all the mummies that wither away in Parliament, 702 00:44:33,080 --> 00:44:36,667 and opened every path to the future for Italy! 703 00:44:36,788 --> 00:44:38,498 CESARE: Exactly! 704 00:44:38,621 --> 00:44:41,290 ARDITI: No! We're going to fight! 705 00:44:41,413 --> 00:44:45,500 We are not monarchists, 706 00:44:45,621 --> 00:44:49,834 republicans, socialists, democrats, 707 00:44:49,955 --> 00:44:52,332 conservatives, reactionaries, right? 708 00:44:52,454 --> 00:44:53,999 - No! - True! 709 00:44:54,080 --> 00:44:57,709 We're a synthesis of all the affirmations 710 00:44:57,830 --> 00:44:59,707 and all the negations. 711 00:44:59,830 --> 00:45:00,914 CROWD: Yes! 712 00:45:00,996 --> 00:45:02,707 We fascists 713 00:45:02,830 --> 00:45:08,001 have no preconceived ideas. 714 00:45:08,122 --> 00:45:10,416 Our only doctrine 715 00:45:10,996 --> 00:45:12,164 is action! 716 00:45:12,288 --> 00:45:13,915 CROWD: (CHEERING) Yes! 717 00:45:20,996 --> 00:45:23,374 Where are you going? I was first. 718 00:45:23,496 --> 00:45:24,956 Fuck off! 719 00:45:27,497 --> 00:45:28,748 Move! 720 00:45:29,998 --> 00:45:33,166 We'll go to the vote alone 721 00:45:33,288 --> 00:45:34,415 as if to war. 722 00:45:34,539 --> 00:45:36,000 CROWD: Yes! 723 00:45:45,955 --> 00:45:47,665 To whom, glory? 724 00:45:47,788 --> 00:45:48,914 CROWD: To whom? 725 00:45:48,996 --> 00:45:50,039 To us! 726 00:45:50,163 --> 00:45:51,373 To us! 727 00:45:51,497 --> 00:45:53,582 - To whom, glory? - To us! 728 00:45:55,122 --> 00:45:56,790 To whom, glory? 729 00:45:56,913 --> 00:45:58,915 To us! 730 00:46:00,330 --> 00:46:02,499 - Long live Mussolini! - Long live Mussolini! 731 00:46:02,622 --> 00:46:04,249 Long live Mussolini! 732 00:46:34,747 --> 00:46:36,374 Benito, calm down. 733 00:46:48,955 --> 00:46:50,707 M: Go home, everyone. 734 00:46:56,122 --> 00:47:00,126 CROWD: (SINGING) ♪ The great Worker's Party 735 00:47:00,330 --> 00:47:04,084 ♪ We are 736 00:47:04,205 --> 00:47:08,334 ♪ A red flower has bloomed in our bosoms 737 00:47:08,455 --> 00:47:12,334 ♪ A faith is born in our hearts 738 00:47:12,455 --> 00:47:16,876 ♪ We are no longer in the workshop 739 00:47:16,999 --> 00:47:21,085 ♪ Across the land From the fields to the sea 740 00:47:21,205 --> 00:47:25,459 ♪ The plebs always bent to work 741 00:47:25,580 --> 00:47:29,543 ♪ Without an ideal in which to hope 742 00:47:29,664 --> 00:47:31,916 ♪ Let's fight! 743 00:47:31,997 --> 00:47:38,129 ♪ Our ideal will finally be 744 00:47:38,247 --> 00:47:42,710 ♪ The international 745 00:47:42,831 --> 00:47:47,043 ♪ Future humanity! 746 00:47:47,580 --> 00:47:51,334 ♪ A great standard blazing in the sun 747 00:47:51,789 --> 00:47:55,209 ♪ Goes before us, glorious 748 00:47:55,747 --> 00:47:59,835 ♪ By it, we want the chains 749 00:47:59,956 --> 00:48:03,751 ♪ To freedom be broken down! 750 00:48:04,164 --> 00:48:06,583 ♪ And let the machine be an ally... ♪ 751 00:48:06,706 --> 00:48:08,958 - There he is! - Traitor! 752 00:48:09,039 --> 00:48:10,833 - Traitor! - Mussolini! 753 00:48:12,622 --> 00:48:16,710 ♪ So the life renewed 754 00:48:16,831 --> 00:48:20,960 ♪ Will give man peace and love! 755 00:48:21,039 --> 00:48:22,624 ♪ So, let's fight! 756 00:48:22,747 --> 00:48:24,082 ♪ The ideal will be ours at last ♪ 757 00:48:24,206 --> 00:48:25,541 Mussolini! Get him! 758 00:48:31,539 --> 00:48:33,000 Get him! 759 00:48:40,956 --> 00:48:42,165 We'll find you! 760 00:48:42,289 --> 00:48:44,667 MAN 1: Mussolini! Mussolini! MAN 2: Find him! 761 00:48:46,747 --> 00:48:48,457 Find him! 762 00:48:51,206 --> 00:48:52,416 There he is! Mussolini! 763 00:48:57,664 --> 00:48:59,582 Mussolini! Find him! 764 00:49:16,999 --> 00:49:18,541 Mussolini, traitor! 765 00:49:27,206 --> 00:49:28,499 Come in! Come in! 766 00:49:28,623 --> 00:49:31,626 MAN 3: Hey, Mussolini, I've heard you're a dead man. 767 00:49:33,581 --> 00:49:35,875 MAN 4: Let him be and play. 768 00:49:48,665 --> 00:49:50,166 MAN 5: Mussolini! 769 00:49:51,914 --> 00:49:53,708 We'll find you! 770 00:49:56,039 --> 00:49:58,667 M: We got 4,796 votes. 771 00:49:58,790 --> 00:50:01,126 Not a single fascist candidate elected. 772 00:50:01,248 --> 00:50:02,207 Not even me. 773 00:50:09,498 --> 00:50:11,875 We got 4,796 votes. 774 00:50:11,999 --> 00:50:15,126 The socialists got one million and 300 thousand. 775 00:50:17,289 --> 00:50:18,833 A landslide. 776 00:50:25,540 --> 00:50:29,335 And here I am, stuck between these four suffocating walls. 777 00:50:30,957 --> 00:50:32,125 Alone. 778 00:50:32,832 --> 00:50:34,166 With my family. 779 00:50:39,289 --> 00:50:42,209 They're holding my funeral, Rachele! My funeral! 780 00:50:42,331 --> 00:50:44,667 {\an8}-Shh! Don't say that. -I'm dead, I'm a corpse! 781 00:50:44,790 --> 00:50:46,208 You're scaring the kids. 782 00:50:46,331 --> 00:50:48,792 - Daddy is kidding. - Daddy is kidding. 783 00:50:51,164 --> 00:50:52,749 - MAN 7: Mussolini! - (BANGING ON DOOR) 784 00:50:53,331 --> 00:50:54,666 Mussolini! 785 00:51:04,040 --> 00:51:06,418 - Mussolini! - (BANGING CONTINUES) 786 00:51:08,581 --> 00:51:10,250 Mussolini, open the door! 787 00:51:10,373 --> 00:51:12,542 WOMAN: Stop, be quiet! 788 00:51:18,040 --> 00:51:20,002 MAN 7: Open the door, Mussolini! 789 00:51:20,082 --> 00:51:21,583 Be quiet, ok? 790 00:51:27,332 --> 00:51:28,709 Here, take it. 791 00:51:28,832 --> 00:51:30,250 - (BANGING CONTINUES) - MAN 7: Mussolini! 792 00:51:30,832 --> 00:51:35,086 D'Annunzio wouldn't surrender. The supermen go down fighting. 793 00:51:37,040 --> 00:51:38,125 Take it. 794 00:51:42,498 --> 00:51:43,666 Go. 795 00:51:53,207 --> 00:51:54,542 To whom, death? 796 00:51:55,332 --> 00:51:56,500 To us. 797 00:51:56,623 --> 00:51:57,791 BOY: Mum. 798 00:52:03,623 --> 00:52:05,250 (BANGING CONTINUES) 799 00:52:06,332 --> 00:52:08,126 - Who's there? - OFFICER: The police! 800 00:52:08,249 --> 00:52:10,002 Mussolini, open the door. 801 00:52:11,998 --> 00:52:13,542 What do you want? 802 00:52:21,000 --> 00:52:23,376 Organization of armed gangs? 803 00:52:25,040 --> 00:52:26,792 Is this a joke? 804 00:52:29,832 --> 00:52:31,583 Put them away. Come on. 805 00:52:34,332 --> 00:52:37,210 We didn't do anything wrong, neither I nor my men. 806 00:52:37,332 --> 00:52:38,667 The accusation is ridiculous. 807 00:52:38,790 --> 00:52:40,333 OFFICER: It comes from the magistrate. 808 00:52:40,457 --> 00:52:42,835 Open the door. You're under arrest! 809 00:52:50,998 --> 00:52:52,709 I'll be home in an hour. 810 00:52:58,374 --> 00:53:01,711 CROWD: ♪ A red flower has bloomed in our bosoms 811 00:53:01,832 --> 00:53:06,002 ♪ A faith is born in our hearts 812 00:53:06,124 --> 00:53:10,378 ♪ We are no longer in the workshop 813 00:53:10,499 --> 00:53:14,378 ♪ Across the land From the fields to the sea 814 00:53:14,582 --> 00:53:19,129 ♪ The plebs always bent to work... ♪ 815 00:53:43,124 --> 00:53:46,127 Long live fascism! Long live Mussolini! 816 00:54:01,041 --> 00:54:02,876 A massacre. 817 00:54:07,001 --> 00:54:10,128 My name is Mussolini Benito Amilcare Andrea, 818 00:54:10,249 --> 00:54:13,210 son of Mussolini Alessandro and Maltoni Rosa. 819 00:54:13,958 --> 00:54:15,543 I'm 35. 820 00:54:17,749 --> 00:54:19,042 I am like the beasts. 821 00:54:19,166 --> 00:54:21,210 I smell the weather before it changes. 822 00:54:22,166 --> 00:54:24,168 And the change will never come. 823 00:54:51,958 --> 00:54:54,085 (THEME MUSIC PLAYING)