Cinecitta is today known as the center of the Italian film industry. But there is a dark past. The film city was solemnly inaugurated in 1937 by Mussolini. Here, propaganda films would be produced to strengthen the dictator's position.
Chloé Réjon
Narrator (voice)
Benito Mussolini
Self (archive footage)
Mauro Canali
Self
Vito Zagarrio
Caterina D’Amico
Francesca Comencini
Alessandro Blasetti
Giulio Andreotti
Totò
Alida Valli
Massimo Girotti
Luchino Visconti
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Anna Magnani
Giuseppe De Santis
Vittorio De Sica
Gina Lollobrigida
Marcello Mastroianni
Vittorio Gassman
Alberto Sordi
Holy Silence
2020
Downfall
2004
The Tin Drum
1979
The Travelling Players
1975
Pearl Harbor
2001
Dongji Rescue
2025
The Sinking of the Lisbon Maru
2024
Donna: Women in Revolt
1980
Underwater Papanikolis
1971
Never Look Away
2018
The Natural History of Destruction
2023
The Last Emperor
1987
Dream Girl: The Making of Marilyn Monroe
2022
The Black Book
Is Paris Burning?
1966
The Girl with the Instagram
2019
The Children of the Resistance
2026
Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet at Work on a Film Based on Franz Kafka’s Amerika
1983
The Peaks of Zelengore
1976
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
1970