The March on Rome | movie | 2022 | Official Featurette - video Dailymotion

The fascinating story of the rise to power of dictator Benito Mussolini (1883-1945) in Italy in 1922 and how fascism mar | dG1fX0I2SGRpdTh2NjQ

Transcript

00:00 (film reel clicking)

00:03 - Hello, my name is Mark Cousins.

00:07 I'm a filmmaker and I am delighted

00:09 that you have come to see the film "The March on Rome."

00:13 It's been great working with Palomar,

00:15 Institute Luce, Cunetita, Andrea Romeo,

00:20 researcher Tony Sacucci, the brilliant Alba Rohrbacher

00:25 and all the team of post-production, production, et cetera.

00:30 What sort of film are you about to see?

00:33 The film, it's a very, I think, planned film.

00:38 I had to watch loads, many, many weeks of archive footage

00:42 and I planned the film in six parts,

00:45 like six movements in a symphony.

00:48 And in fact, I can show you here, my planning documents.

00:54 Quite, you can see quite a lot of notes

00:58 on each bit of the film.

01:01 So it's a planned film.

01:02 I think it's an understated

01:06 and perhaps somewhat gentle film.

01:08 Fascism was the opposite of understated

01:11 and opposite of gentle.

01:12 So I didn't feel that I needed to express your rage

01:17 at the atrocities,

01:19 'cause I think you, the audience, will feel them.

01:22 I think that it's definitely a film in some way

01:26 about toxic masculinity.

01:29 Masculinity is closely wrapped up

01:32 with a kind of resurgent fascism.

01:35 And I think therefore there are quite a few themes

01:37 about gender and masculinity in the picture.

01:40 And the film is about the past, of course,

01:45 something that happened a hundred years ago.

01:48 Or is it?

01:49 Is it really about the past?

01:51 Or is fascism resurgent?

01:54 Thank you so much for your time,

01:56 which is of course precious.