At a time when fascist politics are much on the rise in certain parts of the world, Igor Bezinović‘s highly creative documentary “Fiume o Morto!” serves as a reminder that even the most oppressive and vainglorious dictators can have markedly ephemeral legacies. The dictator in this case is Gabriele D’Annunzio, the celebrated Italian poet and army officer who, in 1919, took it upon himself to occupy the politically disputed city of Fiume — now called Rijeka — and turn it, briefly and foolhardily, into the Italian Regency of Carnaro, an independent city-state with himself as Duce. The ludicrous hubris of this endeavor is laid bare in Bezinović’s film, which
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