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May 20, 2021 · The Bad Poet: Directed by Gianluca Jodice. With Sergio Castellitto, Francesco Patanè, Tommaso Ragno, Clotilde Courau. 1936. Giovanni Comini has just been promoted to Federal, the youngest in Italy. He gets summoned to Rome for a delicate mission: he must survey Gabriele D'Annunzio and make sure that he does not cause any trouble.
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- Biography, Drama, History
- Gianluca Jodice
- 2021-05-20
The Bad Poet (Italian: Il cattivo poeta) is a 2020 Italian biographical-drama film directed by Gianluca Jodice. The film is inspired by the book by the Italian journalist and writer Roberto Festorazzi, "D'Annunzio and the Fascist Octopus", first published by Minotauro in 2005 and republished by Silicio-Editoriale Lombarda in 2020.
May 20, 2021 · Giovanni Comini, the youngest Federal in Fascist Italy, is summoned to Rome for a delicate mission: to surveil aging national poet Gabriele D'Annunzio, whose increasingly restless behavior Mussolini fears could damage his alliance with Nazi Germany.
The Bad Poet (2020) This is a beautifully filmed story with a towering performance by Sergio Castellitto as Gabriele d'Annunzio. While it helps to know something about d'Annunzio - which the makers could assume Italian viewers would - the story is clear enough for anyone to follow.
The film focuses on the last years of the poet Gabriele D'Annunzio, played by Sergio Castellitto, and on his ambiguous relationship with fascism.
- Gianluca Jodice
May 20, 2021 · Giovanni Comini, the youngest Federal in Fascist Italy, is summoned to Rome for a delicate mission: to surveil aging national poet Gabriele D'Annunzio, whose increasingly restless behavior Mussolini fears could damage his alliance with Nazi Germany.
Writer, poet, playwright, journalist, soldier and patriot, Gabriele D’Annunzio inspired Mussolini’s Fascist Movement. He is ending his life in exile, determined to fight against the fascist oppression. The Duce fears him and sends a young Italian federal to watch over the ‘evil poet’.
