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Fascinated by this elegant, decadent little world is the sensitive, literary son of a freethinking, middle-class Jewish doctor. Gradually, as Fascist racial laws isolate and draw together the Jews of Ferrara, a tenuous intimacy develops with Micol. She leads him on, rejects him; leaves Ferrara, returns. He haunts the house, pursues her by phone, abuses and amuses and even makes love...
...FASCIST. Italian history is wryly spoofed in the conflict between a Blackshirt corporal (Ugo Tognazzi) and the droll philosopher (Georges Wilson) whom he must steer through retreating Germans, invading Allies, and other perils common to the peninsula...
...FASCIST. A bungling Blackshirt corporal (Ugo Tognazzi) and his philosophical prisoner (Georges Wilson) turn their clash of values into a sly satire of Italian history, circa 1944, mixed with equal parts of compassion, reminiscence...
...FASCIST. A bungling Blackshirt corporal (Ugo Tognazzi) and his philosophical prisoner (Georges Wilson) turn their clash of values into a sly satire of Italian history, circa 1944, mixed with equal parts of compassion, reminiscence...
Director Luciano Salce brings The Fascist to a conclusion that is almost too sobering for the farcical war preceding it, and he occasionally repeats an effect needlessly. His talent lies in choosing witty, nimble metaphors to give life to the clash of values between his two protagonists. When Tognazzi starts rolling his own cigarettes, expropriating for the purpose a page from the professor's miniature volume of poems by Leopardi, the professor watches a classic poem burn, then resignedly selects for his own smoke "a minor work." Both men understate their roles in virtuoso style, whether locked in ideological...