Vincere

A bold biopic from Italian veteran director MarcoBellocchio, VINCERE reveals the hidden lifeof Mussolini: a wife and a son who was born,acknowledged and then denied.

The passionate love affair between BenitoMussolini, the future dictator of Italy, and IdaDalser began in 1914. Dalser met Mussolini inMilan when he was the young Socialist editor ofAvanti! Taken with the dynamic Mussolini, shesold everything she had - including a successfulbeauty parlor - to finance Il Popolo d'Italia, anewspaper he founded after being expelled bythe Socialists and a central component of hisforthcoming Fascist Party.

By 1915 she had born him a son. But soonfollowing the birth of their child, the phantasmicMussolini of propaganda films and newsreelssupplanted the Benito in Ida's life as her lovermarried another woman and rose to power.Furious, Dasler refused to be pushed to thesidelines. As a result, she was locked away in aninsane asylum, never to see her son again.Revealing one of history's dirty little secretsBellochio merges personal tragedy with grandscale epic drama.

Cast
Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Filippo Timi, Corrado Invernizzi: Producer
Mario Gianani: Script
Daniela Ceselli, Marco Bellocchio: Cinematography
Daniele Ciprì: Music
Carlo Crivelli: Spoken language
Italian, German: Subtitle
English