The Assassination of Matteotti

1973 · 114 MIN · IMDB 7.0 · 310 VOTES · DIR. Florestano Vancini

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Overview

How the Italian Fascist Party managed to turn the physical elimination of a political enemy into a test of strength fundamental for the ascent into the totalitarian regime.

Dialogue Timeline — 1,782 lines

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00:00:02 November 1918 The first World War is over
00:06:14 The Hon. Gonzales, who was prevented from holding a rally in Genoa,
00:10:30 What text? I was forced to improvise. Didn't you notice?
00:18:58 I'll handle it. Meanwhile, don't talk to anyone.
00:23:07 I'm here to take orders. You're the Chief of Police.
00:27:58 Well, De Bono...
00:32:36 The Sicilian Social Democratic Party...
00:36:59 You certainly want to save it. Of course, you have so many positions.
00:41:29 I ask you all for a special commitment.
00:45:19 Should I give you the Roman salute, click my heels and walk away?
00:49:45 Your moderatism disarms the working class
00:53:58 I expected no less from you, nor from these valiant ones.
00:58:30 - I'll repeat almost to the letter. - What are you writing?
01:03:06 I'm a member of the Fascist Grand Council, you know.
01:07:16 You have to save your ideas, as we have ours.
01:11:31 It might be true that getting your belly moving is good for your health.
01:17:20 never went home? Have you always been on duty?
01:22:54 Without the blessed truncheon, the unions would now rule our factories.
01:27:36 Again? Have you received many of those cards?
01:33:15 - does our party thinks of guns? - Of course...
01:37:49 What happened?
01:43:23 And I'll tell you more...
01:47:34 that I have founded a "Cheka". Where? When? In what way?
01:51:49 The Fascist era, which lasted 20 years, brought the nation to ruin.

Cast & Characters

Franco Nero Giacomo Matteotti Mario Adorf Benito Mussolini Umberto Orsini Amerigo Dumini Vittorio De Sica Mauro Del Giudice Renzo Montagnani Umberto Tancredi Gastone Moschin Filippo Turati Riccardo Cucciolla Antonio Gramsci
Damiano Damiani Giovanni Amendola
Stefano Oppedisano Piero Gobetti
Manuela Kustermann Ada Gobetti
Giulio Girola Vittorio Emanuele III Cesare Barbetti Cesare Rossi Pietro Biondi Filippo Filippelli
Mario Maffei Emilio De Bono
Max Dorian Roberto Farinacci
Orazio Stracuzzi Giovanni Marinelli
Antonio La Raina Alfredo Rocco
Piero Gerlini Giuseppe Emanuele Modigliani
Giorgio Favretto Giovanni Gronchi
Mico Cundari Giovanni Colonna di Cesarò Ezio Marano Alcide De Gasperi
Michele Malaspina cardinale Pietro Gasparri
Valerio Ruggeri don Luigi Sturzo
Aldo De Carellis conte Santucci
José Quaglio questore Bertini
Gianni Solaro procuratore generale Crisafulli
Mimmo Darni Edoardo Agnelli
Gino Santercole generale della milizia Franco Silva Benedetto Fasciolo Maurizio Arena Attivista comunista
Giovanni Brusadori Emilio Lussu
Manlio Busoni Claudio Treves
Andrea Costa onorevole Gonzales
Roberto Marelli Giuseppe Donati
Renato Montalbano conte Giacomo Suardo Pietro Tordi presidente della commissione istruttoria del Senato Ugo Sasso un industriale
Alfredo Francesco Bertini cancelliere Scagnetti
Tullio Valli

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed1,782
Dialogue density15.6 lines / min
First line00:00:02
Final line01:51:49

Production Record

DirectorFlorestano Vancini
LanguageItalian
IMDb votes310

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