Vincere

Gorgeous, dark cinematography and a brooding atmosphere dominate this award-winning, well-acted, powerful, captivating, 2009 film, which is based on Mussolini's Marriage and Mussolini's Secret Child and incorporates archival, black-and-white footage, that focuses on the passionate, turbulent love affair that began in war-torn Milan in 1914 between charismatic, ambitious, abusive Benito Mussolini (Filippo Timi) and headstrong, salon owner Ida Dalser (Giovanna Mezzogiorno) and ended with Mussolini shunning his first wife and son Benito Albino and placing them both in asylums when he marries another woman.
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