In crafting "M. Son of the Century," a limited series about the rise of fascist Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, "Atonement" and "Cyrano" director Joe Wright was looking to make a statement.

Mussolini: Son of the Century ★★★★ The political biopic is recast as a fever dream in this whirlwind Italian drama, which turns the rise of fascist Italian dictator Benito Mussolini in the 1920s into ...

See why Benito Mussolini was considered a pioneer ... Hibbert, Christopher. Mussolini: The Rise and Fall of Il Duce. 2008 Basingstoke Palgrave Macmillan. Ridley, Jasper. Mussolini: A Biography.

Benito Mussolini was not the bumbling buffoon portrayed in popular culture, but the most powerful force behind the rise of European Fascism before World War Two. Using archival material kept across ...

In the 1920s and ’30s, Pope Pius XI and Benito Mussolini relied on and used each ... Kertzer’s book, “The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe,” has been ...

There’s no future with presidents who have the politics of Mussolini and the economics of ... whom he accused of “this insidious rise of authoritarianism.” The rightwing “movement is ...

A portrait of Benito Mussolini and his political rise, from the foundation of the Italian Fasci to the imposition of the most ferocious dictatorship Italy has ever known. Mussolini creates the ...

The political biopic is recast as a fever dream in this whirlwind Italian drama, which turns the rise of fascist Italian dictator Benito Mussolini in the 1920s into a nightmarish study of craven o ...