Vincere
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Marco Bellocchio
Giovanna Mezzogiorno
Filippo Timi
Fausto Russo Alesi
Michela Cescon
Piergiorgio Bellocchio
Film Details
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Synopsis
There is a secret in the life of Mussolini: a wife, Ida and a son, Benito Albino, who was born, acknowledged and then denied. When Ida meets Mussolini in Milan, he is an ardent Socialist who intends to guide the masses towards an anti-clerical, antimonarchical, socially emancipated future. Ida already had a fleeting encounter with him in Trento and remained thunderstruck. Ida truly believes in him and his ideas. In order to finance the newspaper he has founded and the nucleus of the forthcoming Fascist Party, Ida sells everything she has. When the First World War erupts, Benito Mussolini enrolls in the Army and disappears. When Ida finds him again in a military hospital, he is tended to by Rachele whom he has just married. Ida lashes out at her rival furiously, demanding her rights as Mussolini's true wife and the mother of his first-born son. She is led away by force. For more than eleven years, she is locked away in an insane asylum and her son in an institute where she is put under physical restraint and tortured, never to see her son again. But Ida will not give up without a fight.
Director
Marco Bellocchio
Cast
Giovanna Mezzogiorno
Filippo Timi
Fausto Russo Alesi
Michela Cescon
Piergiorgio Bellocchio
Corrado Invernizzi
Paolo Pierobon
Bruno Cariello
Francesca Picozza
Simona Nobili
Vanessa Scalera
Giovanna Mori
Patrizia Bettini
Silvia Ferretti
Corinne Castelli
Fabrizio Costella
Pier Giorgio Bellocchio
Crew
Sergio Ballo
Christian Baute
Marco Bellocchio
Pier Giorgio Bellocchio
Francesca Calvelli
Gaetano Carito
Daniela Ceselli
Lilia Cioccarelli
Daniele Cipri
Franco Corridoni
Carlo Crivelli
Stefania De Santis
Marco Dentici
Mario Gianani
Alberta Giuliani
Francesca Greco
Hengameh Panahi
Alfredo Pieroni
Olivia Sleiter
Film Details
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Winner of four awards including the Silver Hugo for Best Director, the Silver Hugo for Best Actress (Giovanna Mezzogiorno), the Silver Hugo for Best Actor (Filippo Timi) and the Gold Plaque for Best Cinematography at the 2009 Chicago International Film Festival.
Released in United States Spring March 19, 2010
Released in United States March 26, 2010
Released in United States 2009
Released in United States September 2009
Released in United States October 2009
Released in United States January 2010
Released in United States February 2010
Shown at New York Film Festival September 25-October 11, 2009.
Shown at Chicago International Film Festival (Main Competition) October 8-22, 2009.
Shown at Pusan International Film Festival (World Cinema) October 8-16, 2009.
Shown at Palm Springs International Film Festival (Modern Masters) January 5-18, 2010.
Released in United States September 2009 (Shown at Telluride Film Festival September 4-7, 2009.)
Shown at Santa Barbara International Film Festival (International Features) February 4-14, 2010.
Based on the book "The Secret Son of Il Duce: The Story of Albino Mussolini and His Mother Ida Dalser" by Alfredo Pieroni.
Released in United States Spring March 19, 2010
Released in United States March 26, 2010 (Los Angeles)
Released in United States 2009 (Shown at AFI/Los Angeles International Film Festival (World Cinema) October 30-November 7, 2009.)
Released in United States 2009 (Shown at New York Film Festival September 25-October 11, 2009.)
Released in United States October 2009 (Shown at Pusan International Film Festival (World Cinema) October 8-16, 2009.)
Released in United States February 2010 (Shown at Santa Barbara International Film Festival (International Features) February 4-14, 2010.)
Released in United States January 2010 (Shown at Palm Springs International Film Festival (Modern Masters) January 5-18, 2010.)
Released in United States October 2009 (Shown at Chicago International Film Festival (Main Competition) October 8-22, 2009.)