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Pub. Date
[1999]
Description
Based in part on his autobiography, director Franco Zeffirelli's Tea with Mussolini is a story about a group of British and American travelers on an indefinite visit to Italy in 1935. Luca is a boy living in Florence whose family situation is precarious at best; his mother has run off and his father has little time for him. Fortunately, he's a welcome guest with Mary, a English woman visiting Italy to soak up European culture. Mary and her friends...
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Description
Rising quickly from within the ranks of the socialist party, Benito Mussolini became local chief of the Italian Socialist Party at a young age, where he developed his instinct for power and his talent for intrigue as he played off various sections of the left against each other. His dangerous rise to power ultimately played out against the backdrop of World War I and gave rise to a new and frightening government--Facism.
3) Amarcord
Series
Criterion collection volume 4
Pub. Date
c2006
Description
Federico Fellini satirizes his youth and turns daily life into a circus of social rituals in this portrait of provincial Italy during the Fascist period.
4) The wave
Pub. Date
2011
Description
A popular and unorthodox high school teacher in Germany attempts to stir up his lethargic stuents by devising an experiment that will explain what totalitarianism is and how it works. What begins with harmless notions about discipline and community builds into a movement: The Wave. Within days, The Wave's uniformly attired students begin ostracizing and threatening others. The Wave takes on a life of its own and is out of control.
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
"Chronicles the life of secret police functionary Marcello Clerici ... who is sent on a mission to assassinate his former teacher, Professor Quadri ... a leftist activist in exile in Paris. Clarici uses his honeymoon with new wife Giulia ... as a cover for the job. But he soon becomes entranced by Quadri's sensuous, haunted wife Anna ... and the fascist tenets he once accepted without question being to waver in his mind."--
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