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Mussolini: The Untold Story

multi-national TV series or program

Mussolini: The Untold Story is a television biographical miniseries drama that aired on November 24–26, The series followed the rise, rule, and downfall of the Italian dictatorBenito Mussolini (played by US actor George C. Scott).

Benito mussolini biography video on george Kroener, Bernhard R. The Los Angeles Times. While Hitler cited Mussolini as an influence and privately expressed great admiration for him, [ ] Mussolini had little regard for Hitler, especially after the Nazis had his friend and ally, Engelbert Dollfuss , the Austrofascist dictator of Austria, killed in Thompson on his desk.

Mussolini's private life features prominently in the series, including his long-term romance with his mistress Clara Petacci (played by Virginia Madsen).[1][2]

The series begins in , as Mussolini gathers his power through the use of his Black Shirt militia. Promoting himself as Julius Caesar reincarnate, Il Duce gains a national fervor that peaks after the Italian invasion of Abyssinia (Ethiopia) in In , Mussolini attempts to promote peace at the Munich Conference.

Nonetheless, he aligns himself with Adolf Hitler. Mussolini draws Italy into World War II, which leads to his country's decline, Mussolini's fall from power, and the eventual roadside execution of Mussolini and Petacci.

The series was nominated for two Primetime Emmy Awards.

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    • Premise

    The rise and fall of the Italian fascistdictator, Benito Mussolini.

    Cast

    Production

    The dictator's son Vittorio advised writer-producer Stirling Silliphant on the screenplay, which later led to accusations of bias.[2][3] In a promotional interview, Silliphant said that his research "really got interesting when we went off to Rome and met his eldest surviving son, Vittorio.

    For about 10 days, we asked him hundreds of questions. He was delightful, charming, very sophisticated and still a spokesman for his father".[3] Silliphant sent a finished script to Vittorio (himself a sometime screenwriter and film critic) and travelled to meet him on Ischia:

    We spent an anxious three or four days there waiting and then we met again.

    That was, I think, the most difficult time in my life as a writer. He is really brilliant in terms of analysing scenes and he would suggest, very acutely, very cleverly, very small alterations that would have the effect of showing his father more favourably. We really had to watch him.[3][4]

    The series was shot in Rome and Yugoslavia, at the same time as the Italian shoot of HBO's Mussolini and I, which broadcast earlier in the same year.[5][6][2]

    Reception

    In September , John J.

    O'Connor had concluded a lukewarm review for The New York Times of HBO's rival show: "The Decline and Fall of Il Duce serves as a kind of teasing introduction to what perhaps will be more illuminating television efforts to deal with one of this century's more confounding figures. Later this season, Mussolini is to be portrayed by George C.

    Scott."[7] When the NBC production appeared in November, O'Connor was disappointed, noting again an emphasis on the dictator's private life at the expense of his political significance ("this is history as it might be reworked for Dynasty"). Pointing out Vittorio Mussolini's involvement, he felt the series painted too sympathetic a portrait, and summed up: "That, it's to be hoped, ends television's preoccupation with Mussolini and global politics for this season."[2]

    Howard Rosenberg in The Los Angeles Times shared many of O'Connor's misgivings.

    Though positive about the series's technical aspects ("elegantly staged, wonderfully lit and beautifully shot"), he disliked the emphasis on private life: "The Untold Story reduces turbulent history to a string of romances that add up to Dynasty, Italian style." He also felt that Scott's Mussolini was "portrayed far too sympathetically.

    Accompanied by Godfatherly music, he is defined largely as a tragic and even somewhat heroic figure who sacrifices himself rather than endanger others".[5]

    When the series screened on BBC One in four parts in , The Times wrote, "As drama, this is no better or worse than the usual American mini-series, but Scott is one of those rare actors who can transcend his material and take over the screen."[8] A preview for The Sunday Telegraph was contemptuous: "The unique George C.

    Scott, the Olivier of thuggish monomaniacs, does his thing as Benito with lots of almost-Italian accents.

    Rise and Fall of The fascist - YouTube: The Sunday Telegraph. Cast [ ] George C. Benito Mussolini. Borrowing the idea first developed by Enrico Corradini before of the natural conflict between " plutocratic " nations like Britain and "proletarian" nations like Italy, Mussolini claimed that Italy's principal problem was that "plutocratic" countries like Britain were blocking Italy from achieving the necessary spazio vitale that would let the Italian economy grow.

    The final punishment for that obsessive nationalist, a four-part series with about two Italian actors in it."[9] A review for the Telegraph published a few days later felt that the series started impressively ("George C. Scott, a colossus among contemporary screen actors by anyone's reasonable standards, postured and glowered and played Godfather to family, friends and enemies to considerable effect") but deteriorated into soap opera as it continued.[10]Nancy Banks-Smith in The Guardian wrote: "It seems respectably researched though with a soft, not to say squashy, centre about family life with the Mussolinis."[11]

    Awards

    The series was nominated for two Emmy Awards, for editing and sound mixing.[12][13]

    Accuracy

    Mussolini's biographer, the Oxford historian Denis Mack Smith, detailed his objections to the series in an article for The Daily Telegraph.

    He felt that it glamorised Mussolini both in his private and his political life:

    Though the film does not say so, he was a bad husband and bad father who despised any kind of friendship and even when at home preferred to eat by himself Mussolini despised women and consistently treated them with petty brutality, but to reveal that side of him might make unattractive viewing Nor is there anything here of the ruthless man who ordered the execution of prisoners and the "extermination" by poison gas of whole villages in Africa[1]

    Mack Smith wrote that Petacci was given undue prominence in the story by the removal of the dictator's other mistresses.

    Regarding Scott's performance, he stated that in the scenes of Mussolini's public speeches the actor reproduced his mannerisms exactly, but on other occasions did not bother, and was too old considering that, in the period depicted, Mussolini became Italy's youngest prime minister. Pointing out that Scott's make-up omitted the protruberant wart that Mussolini made sure was not visible in photographs,[a] Mack Smith concluded that the series showed him according to his own self-image: "a decent, humane, affectionate person that he would have dearly liked the outside world to believe in".[1]

    Notes

    References

    1. ^ abcMack Smith, Denis (1 September ).

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    2. ^ abcdO'Connor, John J. (22 November ). "George C. Scott as Mussolini on NBC". The New York Times. Retrieved 8 March
    3. ^ abcRees-Mogg, William (8 September ).

      "Truth takes second place to entertainment at the BBC: William Rees-Mogg on Mussolini and the glamorisation of Fascism". The Independent. No.&#; p.&#;

    4. ^Marshall, Lee (14 June ). "Obituary: Vittorio Mussolini". The Independent. Retrieved 9 March
    5. ^ abRosenberg, Howard (24 November ).

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    7. ^O'Connor, John J. (6 September ).

      Razzies We used to believe that the concept was totally without substance. On 3 January , Mussolini told the diplomat Baron Pompei Aloisi that the French in Tunisia had made an "appalling blunder" by permitting sex between the French and the Tunisians, which he predicted would lead to the French degenerating into a nation of " half-castes ", and to prevent the same thing happening to the Italians gave orders to Marshal Badoglio that miscegenation be made a crime in Libya. Count Galeazzo Ciano , Mussolini's son-in-law and foreign minister, summed up the dictator's objectives regarding France in his diary on 8 November Djibouti would be ruled jointly with France; Tunisia with a similar regime; and Corsica under Italian control. He totalled about nine months of active, front-line trench warfare.

      "Decline and Fall of Mussolini Depicted on HBO". The New York Times. Retrieved 8 March

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    15. ^Last, Richard (3 September ). "History as soap". The Daily Telegraph. No.&#; p.&#;
    16. ^ abBanks-Smith, Nancy (2 September ). "Il Duce--the return of jaws". The Guardian. p.&#;9.
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