Mussolini: The Untold Story - 3-DVD Box Set

Mussolini: The Untold Story - 3-DVD Box Set (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Emmy Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
Dutch ( Subtitles )
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
Netherlands ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
362 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
3-DVD Set
Box Set
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1985 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )
Yugoslavia ( Russia, Eastern Europe )

Directed By:
William A. Graham

Written By:
Stirling Silliphant

Actors:
George C. Scott ..... Benito Mussolini
Lee Grant ..... Rachele Mussolini
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio ..... Edda Mussolini-Ciano
Raul Julia ..... Count Galeazzo Ciano
Virginia Madsen ..... Claretta Petacci
Robert Downey Jr. ..... Bruno Mussolini
Gabriel Byrne ..... Vittorio Mussolini
Gina Bellman ..... Gena
Anne-Louise Lambert ..... Orsala
Gunnar Möller ..... Adolf Hitler
David Suchet ..... Grandi
Kenneth Colley ..... King Vittorio Emmanuele
Wolf Kahler ..... Skorzeny
Paul Herzberg ..... Major Spogler
Richard Kane ..... Von Ribbentrop

Synopsis:

The story in this two-part TV biopic was probably 'untold' mainly because it was untrue. According to the revisionist script by Stirling Silliphant, Italian dictator Benito Mussolini (overplayed by George C. Scott) may have been a fascist, a tyrant, a mass murderer and an intimate of Adolf Hitler, but he also had his warm and fuzzy side. This was manifested in his genuine love for his gorgeous mistress Clara Petacci (Virginia Madsen), whose devotion to Il Duce was equally strong, so much so that she willingly went to her death along with him when the Axis collapsed and the ex-dictator was summarily shot. Despite his extramarital shenanigans, Mussolini had plenty of affection left over for his long-suffering wife Rachel (Lee Grant) and his children. With a cast comprised largely of non-Italians (notably the aggressively Irish Gabriel Byrne as Mussolini's son Vittorio), this epic had more phony dialects than a Marx Bros. picture. Despite its distant relation to the facts and its flaccid treatment of one of history's darkest periods, Mussolini: The Untold Story (filmed not in Italy but in Yugoslavia) garnered respectable ratings when it was originally telecast by NBC on November 24 and 26, 1985--and also earned a brace of Emmy award nominations

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 04 October, 2007.

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