Mussolini and I

Mussolini and I is a 4 hour docu-drama that was made for television. It originally aired on HBO in September 1985. It is about Italy's fascist regime leader Benito Mussolini. The film starts just before World War II and shows the political and personal side of Benito Mussolini aka Il Duce's fall from power until his death and the end of the war. It delves into Il Duce's relationship with his son in-law, daughter, wife, mistress, and admiration of Hitler. Most of the film is based on the diaries of Ciano. It was directed by Alberto Negrin. All filming was done in Italy; including northern Italy's Gargnano, Merano, Bolzano, Verona, and in central Italy, Rome and L'Aquila. Filming was also done at the well known Villa Torlonia and Palazzo Venezia. It was released on a 2 disc DVD in August 2003. It is divided into 4 segments for a total of 240 minutes and was released by Koch Entertainment

Cast

• Bob Hoskins as Benito Mussolini
• Susan Sarandon as Edda Ciano, daughter of Mussolini
• Anthony Hopkins as Count Galeazzo Ciano, son in-law of Mussolini
• Annie Girardot as Rachele Mussolini, Mussolini's wife
• Barbara De Rossi as Claretta Petacci, Mussolini's mistress
• Massimo Dapporto as Vittorio Mussolini, son of Mussolini
• Vittorio Mezzogiorno as Alessandro Pavolini, friend of Galeazzo's and leader of the Republican Fascist Party
• Kurt Raab as Adolf Hitler
• Marne Maitland as King Victor Emmanuel III
• Hans-Dieter Asner as Joachim von Ribbentrop, Foreign Minister of the Third Reich
• Carlheinz Heitmann as Karl Wolff, Military Governor and Supreme SS and Police Leader of Northern Italy
• Harald Dietl as Otto Skorzeny, led Operation Oak to rescue Mussolini from Campo Imperatore
• Dietlinde Turban as Frau Beetz, born as Hildegard Burkhardt, she was a German agent who visited Galeazzo in prison and tried to help him
• Ted Rusoff as Francesco Saverio Nitti
• David-George Brown as Giuseppe Castellano
• Gianni Pulone as Enzo Galbiati
• Stefano De Sando as Dino Grandi
• Luciano Baglioni as Carlo Scorza
• Franco Meroni as Giuseppe Bottai
• Leslie Thomas as Emilio De Bono
• Piero Palermini as Roberto Farinacci
• Robert Sommer as Giacomo Suardo
• Franco Mazzieri as Giovanni Marinelli
• Ulrich Engst as Major Otto-Harald Mors

External links

• Mussolini and I at the Internet Movie Database