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 ...

Rijeka's Fascist takeover in 1919 the subject of an award-winning film, Fiume o morte!, by local director Igor Bezinović ...

Gabriela Mistral was a woman who forged herself amidst nature, facing the sea and surrounded by books—a frustrated mother and lover who found in both teaching and poetry a way to escape her pain. A ...

The 20th-century poet William Carlos Willams wrote in his poem “Asphodel, That Greeny Flower:” “It is difficult/to get the news from poems/yet men die miserably every day/for lack/of what is ...

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 ...

After a slew of executive orders came down from the Trump administration over the last few weeks, in Massachusetts this week, Governor Maura Healey issued one of her own, creating the position of a ...

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 ...

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 ...

“When I begin to paint, it’s like leaping suddenly into deep waters, and I never know beforehand whether I will be able to swim,” the German Expressionist artist Gabriele Münter remarked in ...

The city of Fiume, founded at the time of ancient Rome, in 1779 was annexed to Hungary by Maria Teresa of Austria. In the last decades of the nineteenth century and in the early twentieth century, a ...