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Lightdox Boards Rotterdam Tiger Competition Entry ‘Fiume O Morte!,’ About Italian Nationalist Poet Gabriele D’Annunzio (EXCLUSIVE)
Sales company Lightdox has boarded Igor Bezinovic's 'Fiume o morte!,' which premieres in Rotterdam's Tiger Competition section.
“Today, the citizens of Fiume, now called Rijeka, retell and reinterpret the bizarre story about the 16-month occupation of their city in a brutally factual yet defiantly punk cinematic journey,” a statement explains. “‘Fiume o morte!’ is a film on poetry, dynamite, cocaine, machine guns, football, airplanes, furniture flying out of windows, concerts, prisons, sunbathing, thousands of soldiers, millions of bullets, endless speeches, a platypus and on the power of political performativity. Producer Vanja Jambrović adds: “We were hoping to make a film that successfully combines one bizarre event from 100 years ago and the challenging present time in which Europe faces again a rise of different nationalistic ideologies.
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