Fiume o morte!18
In defiance of the Paris Peace Conference, Italian poet and military officer Gabriele D’Annunzio led a rogue, ultranationalist occupation of Fiume (now Rijeka, Croatia) in 1919. More than a century later, filmmaker Igor Bezinović revisits this bizarre historical episode, blending archival footage, reenactments, and contemporary interviews to explore how a city remembers its past, and how the shadows of European fascism endure. A stark and singular reflection on history’s unfinished business, this playful documentary won the Tiger Award at the 2025 International Film Festival Rotterdam and is Croatia’s submission for the Oscars.
Reviews
‘The film’s self-deprecatingly comedic artifice nonetheless captures chilling details of an adventure that starts with a demagogue’s cult-like following and ends with bloody corpses.’
Richard Brody, The New Yorker
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We showed Fiume o morte! between December 6, 2025 and January 15, 2026.
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