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| Directed by | Marco Bellocchio |
| Produced by | Mario Gianani |
| Written by | Marco Bellocchio Daniela Ceselli |
| Starring | Giovanna Mezzogiorno Filippo Timi Fausto Russo Alesi Michela Cescon Pier Giorgio Bellocchio Corrado Invernizzi |
| Music by | Carlo Crivelli |
| Cinematography | Daniele Ciprì |
| Editing by | Francesca Calvelli |
| Distributed by | 01 Distribution IFC Films |
| Release date(s) | 19 May 2009 (Cannes Festival) 20 May 2009 (Italy) 25 November 2009 (France) 19 March 2010 (USA) |
| Running time | 128 mins Italy 118 mins Europe 122 mins United States |
| Country | Italy France |
| Language | Italian |
| Budget | 9,000,000 € |
| Box office | 2,089,000 € |
Vincere is a film that is based on the life of the first wife of Benito Mussolini. It stars Giovanna Mezzogiorno as Ida Dalser and Filippo Timi as Benito Albino Mussolini. It was filmed under the direction of Marco Bellocchio, who also wrote the screenplay with Daniela Ceselli, and it was released 22 May 2009 in Italy. It was the only Italian film in competition at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival.[1]
It won four Awards at the Chicago International Film Festival (Cinematography, Actor (Filippo Timi), Actress (Giovanna Mezzogiorno) and Director) and won four Silver Ribbon (Actress (Giovanna Mezzogiorno), Cinematography, Editing and Art Direction). Giovanna Mezzogiorno was rewarded with the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress 2010.
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The movie relates the tragic story of Ida Dalser, who fell for the future Italian Fascist leader, Benito Mussolini, supported him while he was unemployed in the early 1910s, and married him, presumably around 1914. She bore Mussolini a son, Benito Albino, before the outbreak of World War I. The two lost touch during the war years and, upon discovering him again in a hospital during the war, she also discovered Rachele Guidi, who had married Mussolini in the meantime, and a daughter borne to Guidi and Mussolini in 1910.
Historically, with his following political ascendency, Mussolini suppressed the information about his first marriage and he (through the Fascist party) persecuted both his first wife and oldest son and committed them forcibly to asylums. Dalser died in an asylum in Venice in 1937 at the age of 57 of brain haemorrhages and Benito Albino died in 1942 at the age of 26 in an asylum near Milan after repeated coma-inducing injections.[2]
Vincere was well received by French critics during the 2009 Cannes Film Festival: this powerful political drama was considered to be a possible Palme d'Or, along with Un Prophète from Jacques Audiard and the The White Ribbon from Michael Haneke.[3]
It received a rating of 85 from the review aggregate site Metacritic,[4] as well as a 93% "fresh" rating from Rotten Tomatoes.[5]
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