Celluloid Dreams picks up sales rights to Bellocchio’s Mussolini biopic

Date:

Variety reports that Celluloid Dreams has taken international sales outside Italy for Marco Bellocchio’s Benito Mussolini biopic. Set to start shooting in April in Northern Italian locations, Vincere will tackle the touchy subject of fascist dictator Benito Mussolini's illegitimate son. Born out of wedlock before Mussolini came to power in 1922, the child was named Benito. Mussolini hid the child and mother, beautician Ida Dalser, in asylums where both died before Mussolini's execution in 1945. Though known to historians, this dark detail about the dictator has never seeped into mainstream Italian culture.

Bellocchio last directed The Wedding Director (2006) and Good Morning, Night (2004).

Eric Lavallée
Eric Lavalléehttps://www.ericlavallee.com
Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist, and critic at IONCINEMA.com, established in 2000. A regular at Sundance, Cannes, and Venice, Eric holds a BFA in film studies from the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013, he served on the narrative competition jury at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson’s "This Teacher" (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). He is a Golden Globes Voter, member of the ICS (International Cinephile Society) and AQCC (Association québécoise des critiques de cinéma).

Share post:

NEWSLETTER SIGNUP

Popular

More like this
Related

Kill the Jockey | Review

They Kill Horse Riders, Don’t They?: Ortega Puzzles with...

Hot Milk | Review

The Eternal Daughter: Lenkiewicz Ladles the Milk of Sorrows Screenwriter...

Interview: Ariane Labed – September Says

A pivotal figure in the Greek Weird Wave, Ariane...

Interview: Jessica Palud – Being Maria

In 2018, political journalist and writer Vanessa Schneider released...