Fiume o morte! 2025. Directed by Igor Bezinović

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Fiume o morte! 2025. Crotia/Italy/Slovenia. Directed by Igor Bezinović. Courtesy Lightdox

Fiume o morte! 2025. Crotia/Italy/Slovenia. Directed by Igor Bezinović. North American premiere. In Croatian, Italian, Fiuman; English subtitles. 112 min.

The past is present and fact made fiction in Igor Bezinović’s Fiume o morte!, a high-energy hybrid documentary about early-20th-century Italian warrior-poet Gabriele D’Annunzio. A model for Mussolini who ruled Rijeka, Croatia, with an iron fist, D’Annunzio’s 16-month reign left such a legacy that current denizens (street-cast in a brilliant montage) are more than a little willing to play-act as his soldiers. Bezinović elaborately restages Rijeka’s strange, bloody era in a duet between filmmaking and history that melds Wes Anderson, Straub-Huillet, and Abbas Kiarostami’s Close-Up while holding an uneasy mirror to contemporary fears of fascism. Winner of the top prize at the 2024 International Film Festival Rotterdam.

This film accompanies New Directors/New Films 2025.

Past events

Sat, Apr 5, 2025, 3:00 p.m.

Followed by a conversation with Igor Bezinović

MoMA, Floor T2, Theater 2

The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 2
Fri, Apr 4, 2025, 8:45 p.m.

Followed by a conversation with Igor Bezinović

Film at Lincoln Center, Walter Reade Theater

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