Fiume o morte!
<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word; font-size: 20px; font-family: "Source Sans 3", sans-serif;">In September 1919, Italian poet Gabriele D'Annunzio led a force of irregulars in an invasion of the town of Fiume, in what is today Croatia. Was he an egotist with dreams of heading his own state? A utopian with a strong nationalist bent? Or a fascist who cared little for the locals and helped pave the way for Mussolini’s rule?</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word; font-size: 20px; font-family: "Source Sans 3", sans-serif;"><img class="edge_photoleft" src="https://misc.icarusfilms.com/new2025/gifs/FIUME2.jpg" alt="film poster" align="right" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 5px 10px 0px 1px; display: block; max-width: 100%; border: 1px solid rgb(96, 95, 79);"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word; font-size: 20px; font-family: "Source Sans 3", sans-serif;">In FIUME O MORTE! (“Fiume or Death!”), Croatian filmmaker Igor Bezinović tells the story of D’Annunzio’s escapade in the most entertaining way possible, using brashly anachronistic re-enactments featuring residents of modern-day Rijeka — the city which includes what used to be Fiume.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word; font-size: 20px; font-family: "Source Sans 3", sans-serif;">Seven different bald men play D’Annunzio, with Bezinović announcing each cast change. Where some filmmakers strive for visual authenticity, Bezinović revels in anachronism and buffonery. D’Annunzio drives to Fiume in a gleaming modern car, a rock band serenading him from the side of the road. Bezinović regularly announces the true identities of participants (including the whippet playing D’Annunzio’s dog) and tells us what’s about to happen next. A passerby on the street berates a young man playing one of D’Annunzio’s soldiers and tells him his shoes are all wrong.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em; overflow-wrap: break-word; font-size: 20px; font-family: "Source Sans 3", sans-serif;">Meticulously researched, FIUME O MORTE! brilliantly blends archival footage and photography with a rotating cast of informal re-enactors, drawing the past into the present. It also captures the essential puffery and absurdity of the fascist project at a time when authoritarianism is on the rise around the world</p>DocumentaryPT1H52M2026-07-24HRhrGabriele D'Annunzio
Izet Medošević
Ćenan Beljulji
Igor Bezinović
Igor Bezinović
Vanja Jambrović
Marina Gumzi
Tibor Keser
Erica Barbiani
Fiume o morte!"Fiume o morte!"Showtimes
July 24, 4:45 pm
July 25, 5:30 pm
July 26, 2:05 pm
July 27, 2:15 pm
July 28, 2:15 pm
July 29, 2:15 pm
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