TRAGICA ALBA A DONGO

A reconstruction of Benito Mussolini’s final hours: from his arrest at Dongo by a partisan brigade to the night he and Clara Petacci spent in a farmer’s house, all the way to his isolation and execution. A semi-amateur production, made in just four months a few years after the death of the Duce, at the time it was blocked by the censors and never distributed. Given up for lost, except for a screening during the 7th Cinema Giovani, the film was recently found and restored by the National Cinema Museum of Turin, at the L’Immagine Ritrovata laboratory.

“Many of the actors in this film-documentary are the same participants and eyewitnesses of the historical episode. […] The movie camera faithfully reconstructed and repeated the facts, things, places and people just as they appeared and behaved during those tragic days in April. The time, the places, the costumes and even the gestures are the elements which characterize the essentially documentary value of this painstaking reconstruction of the century’s most mysterious political tragedy.”