Word: mussolini
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...opens in 1923 and immediately reflects the sepia-tinted, ignorance-is-bliss tenor of that carefree era. There are the flappers doing their frenetic Charleston, the dastardly villains and wistful heroines of the silent screen. Soon a couple of European political upstarts make their appearance: A. Hitler and B. Mussolini. Moving through the Great Depression and World War II, the film traces the ever more sophisticated use of all communications forms-radio, candid camera, wireless photos, TV -to capture the substance and essence of the times...
...show's force does not reassert itself until the appearance of the extras, a cluster of paesani recruited from an Italian village 36 miles south of Rome. They provide a chorus con brio, and give the film verisimilitude no casting office could provide. "The Italian race," wrote Mussolini, "is a race of sheep." By going to the source. The Secret of Santa Vittoria shows why he lost that race-and why Italy, host to invaders and tyrants for 2,000 years, has managed to endure and to survive them...
...mortal sin; and even in politics, charisma is not always a virtue. Nkrumah and Sukarno stirred the blood of their countrymen, but they very nearly ruined their countries. Two of the most persuasive leaders of the 20th century were also two of its greatest monsters-Hitler and Mussolini. Particularly in advanced nations, the leader who governs by emotion and style is apt to be regarded as a dangerous indulgence, one that people with stable institutions should not hanker...
SANTA VITTORIA is a village in Italy. After Mussolini is killed. the village repudiates its local Fascists and takes Bombolini as mayor. Bombolini was the clown of the village, but given the responsibility of mayor, he tries to cope with the crises that arise...
...took one Italian housewife just a year to move from the kitchen to control of a successful leather-goods company. Now she's planning a recording session and thinking about her first movie-and who knows? Of course, Maria Scicolone Mussolini, 31-year-old mother of two, has a couple of uncommon advantages. Her husband is Jazz Pianist Romano Mussolini, Benito's son, and the familiar surname may have helped to make her shoes and handbags all the rage in Rome. In the same circular way, it may help sell records. The movie? Well, Maria is also Sophia...