Vecchia guardia

1934

Drama

There were very few commercial feature films made during the Italian fascist era that were as openly propagandistic as this famous (notorious?) dramatic paean to the Blackshirts. The story takes place in a small village in Italy in October of 1922, on the eve of the fascist "March on Rome", in which King Victor Emanuel III was persuaded to consign power to Benito Mussolini. (imdb)

Directed by:

Alessandro Blasetti

Written by:

Alessandro Blasetti Livio Apolloni Giuseppe Zucca

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Starring:

Gianfranco Giachetti

Mino Doro Ugo Ceseri Franco Brambilla Maria Puccini Barbara Monis Graziella Antonelli

Genre:

Drama

AKA:

Old Guard

Country:

Italy

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Rated 30 Jul 2016

Vecchia guardia [Old Guard] (1934) might be the most fascist drama made during Mussolini's Italy. And it's directed by Italy's foremost directors during the 1930s - Alessandro Blasetti. The story leads up to the infamous 1922 fascist march and takes place in a small town divided. The politics is not straight in your face, though there is no doubt which side it's on, so the film is fairly harmless, but it's also.... fairly charmless.

Rated 30 Jul 2016

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