March on Rome (film)

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March on Rome
(La marcia su Roma)
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Directed by Dino Risi
Produced by Mario Cecchi Gori
Written by Age & Scarpelli, Sandro Continenza, Dino Risi, Ghigo De Chiara, Ruggero Maccari
Starring Ugo Tognazzi
Vittorio Gassman
Music by Marcello Giombini
Cinematography Alfio Contini
Edited by Alberto Gallitti
Distributed by Lux Film (Dino de Laurentiis)
Release dates
1962
Running time
94 min
Country Italy
Language Italian

March on Rome (Italian: La marcia su Roma ) is a 1962 comedy film by Dino Risi with Vittorio Gassman and Ugo Tognazzi, aimed at describing the March on Rome of Benito Mussolini's black shirts from the point of view of two newly recruited, naïve black shirts.

The movie's main theme is the gradual betrayal of all the promises of the National Fascist Party: the two gradually tick all the main points of the fascist program as described on a propaganda flyer every time they are contradicted by practice. In its early stages fascism was a radical republican movement, suspicious of large businesses, nobility and the Catholic Church (Mussolini himself had been a socialist early in his career, being cast out of the Italian Socialist Party when his nationalism grew more and more pronounced). When arriving in Rome, and having ticked them all off, they leave the fascist party in the moment of its victory.

Plot summary

The film is set in Rome in 1922. Two friends returning from the First World War, Rocchetti and Gavazza, join the Fascist Party, and are convinced that the movement and the leader Mussolini can guarantee a period of peace, growth and stability in an Italy torn by the destruction of bombs. Unfortunately the joys of the two friends soon vanish, as Mussolini proves to be a tyrant, which is revealed during the March on Rome. When Rocchetti tries to rebel and resign from the party, he is beaten almost to death. Fortunately Gavazza saves him, and runs away with his friend. However, the March on Rome is made, and the two friends cannot help but watch in silence as the political change happens.

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Quotes

  • The expedition is burning down a building of the Communist party. One of the two recruits asks why they are contradicting their declared principles of freedom of speech. The fascist gang leader replies that "They have freedom of speech, we have the freedom of beating them up. If they do not want to speak because they are afraid, so..."
  • The fascists are victoriously parading in the streets of Rome. A counsellor reminds king Victor Emmanuel III that they are still in time to send them away. The king replies "Nah, let's keep them for a few months".

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