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Did Mussolini also do good things?
Yesterday's propaganda and today's fake news

from an idea of Pietro Suber
written by Luca Cambi e Pietro Suber
directed by Simona Risi
with the participation of Joel Dix

Did Mussolini also do good things? Yesterday's propaganda, today's fake news, the documentary by 3D Productions which, one hundred years after the march on Rome, retraces the parable of fascism by investigating the creation of the character Benito Mussolini and the birth of propaganda, will be screened next January 9th at 19.30 pm at the Anteo Spazio Cinema (Piazza XXV Aprile, 8th Milan).

The evening will open, sponsored by City of Milan - Project Milan is Memory, a short presentation with the interventions of Tommaso Sacchi (Councillor for Culture of the Municipality of Milan), Pietro Suber e Luca Cambi (authors of the documentary), Francesco Filippi (author of the literary work), Didi Dumplings (3D Productions), Luca Gibillini (Municipality of Milan - Milan is memory project) e Joel Dix.

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Accompanied by the narrating presence of Gioele Dix, the documentary follows the story of the story on the one hand, through direct and indirect witnesses, archive images and the interventions of historians and scholars of the fascist period who stage the long series of mystifications of the twenty years: from land reclamation to the introduction of social security, up to Mussolini, the great military strategist. On the other, propaganda with his songs, newsreels, speeches and self-celebrations of the Duce. If there is one thing that Mussolini was able to do very well, it was the promotion of himself and of businesses for which he often only took credit.

The film is inspired by the book “Mussolini also did good things” (Bollati Boringhieri, 2019) by Francesco Filippi, with a preface by Carlo Greppi. In addition to them, other authoritative historians such as Alessandro Barbero, Claudio Siniscalchi, Giordano Bruno Guerri, Roberto Chiarini, Guido Melis are part of the project.
Alongside them, in the documentary, the stories of those who lived or were able to collect and pass on the experience of the fascist era, such as the witnesses and descendants of the reclaimers of the Agro Pontino, former fascist fighters and victims of the racial laws.

"Did Mussolini also do good things? Yesterday's propaganda, today's fake news" is produced and created by 3D ProductionsIn partnership with Sky Documentaries, in collaboration with Emanuele Osti and with the contribution of Shoah Museum Foundation e National Museum of Italian Judaism and Shoah Foundation.