Croatian director Igor Bezinović's documentary Fiume o Morte! exploring the complex figure of Italian poet and playwright Gabriele D'Annunzio has won the top Tiger Award at the International Film ...

The Croatian-Italian-Slovenian coproduction takes the audience back to 1919, when the Italian nationalist poet, dandy and preacher of war Gabriele D'Annunzio occupied the city of Fiume.

Igor Bezinović puts a spotlight on his hometown under Italian poet-officer Gabriele D’Annunzio, saying U.S. viewers may notice "parallels" to Donald Trump in his film, which debuts at Rotterdam.

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Igor Bezinović's 'Fiume o Morto!' invites the Croatian city of Rijeka to revisit its 1919 capture by Italian nationalist poet Gabriele D'Annunzio.

With the help of local dustmen and war vets, director Igor Bezinović’s meta documentary restages a bizarre episode in Rijeka’s history, when it was placed under nationalist occupation by the Italian ...

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September 12 will see the centenary of the entry into the city of Gabriele D’Annunzio, the Italian poet, aviator and nationalist ideologue whose 17-month reign over the city provided Italian ...

Igor Bezinović’s Fiume o morte!, a hybrid documentary revisiting the peculiar occupation of Rijeka by Italian nationalists led by poet, aristocrat, and army officer Gabriele D’Annunzio after World War ...

The dictator in this case is Gabriele D’Annunzio, the celebrated Italian poet and army officer who, in 1919, took it upon himself to occupy the politically disputed city of Fiume — now called ...

1936. Giovanni Comini, the youngest Federal in Fascist Italy, is summoned to Rome for a delicate mission: to surveil aging national poet Gabriele D'Annunzio, whose increasingly restless behavior ...