Fiume o Morte!
SYNOPSIS
In 1919 the Italian poet, dandy, and preacher of war, Gabriele D’Annunzio occupied the city of Fiume. The citizens of Fiume, today 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.
Balearic Premiere. With the presence of the director.
Why must you see it?
A fable between comedy and history rereading. Igor Bezinović invites us to peek into Rijeka, his hometown, and to navigate through his past, between reality and fiction. A procedural film that reveals the complicated seams of history, its multiple versions, and the subjectivity in which each individual relates to each of them.
A brilliant portrait of the complexity of Europe’s internal borders and of those who inhabit them.
Lara Sousa
Igor Bezinović
Igor Bezinović is a filmmaker born in Rijeka. He graduated in film directing at the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb and in Philosophy, Sociology and Comparative Literature at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb. He is a member of The Croatian Film Directors’ Guild and the judo club Black Belt.
Year: 2025
Country: Croatia, Italy, Slovenia
Length: 112 min
Language: Italian, Croatian and Fiuman
Subtitles: Spanish, English
Director: Igor Bezinović
Production: Tibor Keser, Vanja Jambrović
Editor: Hrvoslava Brkušić
