Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita

Cinecitta is today known as the center of the Italian film industry. But there is a dark past. The film city was solemnly inaugurated in 1937 by Mussolini. Here, propaganda films would be produced to strengthen the dictator's position.

Documentary History TV Movie

Chloé Réjon

(Narrator (voice))

Benito Mussolini

(Self (archive footage))

Mauro Canali

Vito Zagarrio

Caterina D’Amico

Francesca Comencini

Alessandro Blasetti

(Self (archive footage))

Giulio Andreotti

(Self (archive footage))

Totò

(Self (archive footage))

Alida Valli

(Self (archive footage))

Massimo Girotti

(Self (archive footage))

Luchino Visconti

(Self (archive footage))

Franklin D. Roosevelt

(Self (archive footage))

Anna Magnani

(Self (archive footage))

Giuseppe De Santis

(Self (archive footage))

Vittorio De Sica

(Self (archive footage))

Gina Lollobrigida

(Self (archive footage))

Marcello Mastroianni

(Self (archive footage))

Vittorio Gassman

(Self (archive footage))

Alberto Sordi

(Self (archive footage))

Sophia Loren

(Self (archive footage))

Amedeo Nazzari

(Self (archive footage))

Pope Pius XII

(Self (archive footage))

Federico Fellini

(Self (archive footage))

Vittorio Mussolini

(Self (archive footage))