FIUME O MORTE!

Directed by Igor Bezinović
2025 | Croatia, Italy, Slovenia | 112 minutes
Fiuman, Croatian, and Italian with English subtitles

Wednesday, April 15, 2026 | 7:00 p.m. | Cinema 21 (regional premiere)
Saturday, April 18, 2026 | 3:00 p.m. | The Hollywood Theatre

Director in attendance at both screenings

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We are honored to present the regional premiere of FIUME O MORTE! for two screenings, with director Igor Bezinović in attendance.

The film focusses on a tumultuous period between 1919 and 1921, when the Italian-nationalist poet Gabriele D’Annunzio, in defiance of his own government, led a convoy of rebel soldiers into Rijeka—a town, on the Adriatic Coast, which had a large Italian minority and was then widely known by its Italian name, Fiume. Quickly consolidating power, D’Annunzio ruled Fiume as a dictator. The results were oppressive for the city and—because D’Annunzio’s exploits won the admiration of the younger, even more ambitious Italian nationalist Benito Mussolini—catastrophic for the world.

Bezinović, who is from Rijeka, presents the story of D’Annunzio’s autocratic rise, reign, and fall in a way that’s as unusual as it is revelatory. He gathers a teeming array of archival material and a memorable cast of actors—mostly nonprofessionals, many recruited via person-in-the-street interviews—to re-create and reflect on the proto-fascist occupation of his hometown.

The winner of International Film Festival Rotterdam’s top Tiger Prize and the most watched Croatian documentary of all time, FIUME O MORTE! is a wildly imaginative whirlwind of collaborative place-based storytelling.