D'Annunzio film starring Sergio Castellitto hits theaters May 20

The film Il cattivo poeta (The Bad Poet), which recounts the last two years of Gabriele d’Annunzio ’s life (Pescara, 1863 - Gardone Riviera, 1938), is released in Italian cinemas on May 20. In the film, which features Gianluca Jodice as director, the Vate is played by Sergio Castellitto.The film focuses between 1936 and 1938 and recounts the events of those years through the eye of a young Fascist federale, Giovanni Comini (played by Francesco Patanè), who is sent to Gardone by Achille Starace(Fausto Russo Alesi) to check on D’Annunzio so that the poet does not harm the alliance between Mussolini and Hitler, which was on the verge of being born.

The film is an Italian-French co-production: it is produced by Matteo Rovere and Andrea Paris, co-produced by Nicolas Anthomé. It is instead distributed by 01 Distribution. Among the actors, the film stars Tommaso Ragno, Clotilde Courau, Massimiliano Rossi, Elena Bucci, Lidiya Liberman, Janina Rudenska, and Lino Musella.

Here is the official synopsis: “1936. Giovanni Comini has just been promoted to federal, the youngest that Italy can boast. His mentor, Achille Starace, secretary of the Fascist Party and number two of the regime, wanted it that way. Comini is immediately summoned to Rome for a delicate mission: he is to supervise Gabriele d’Annunzio and put him in a position to do no harm... Yes, because the Vate, the national poet, in recent times appears to be disgruntled, and Mussolini fears it will harm his impending alliance with Hitler’s Germany. But at the Vittoriale, the political design of which Comini is only a small executor will begin to lose its solid contours, and the young federal, torn between loyalty to the Party and fascination for the poet, will end up putting his launched career in serious danger.”

D'Annunzio film starring Sergio Castellitto hits theaters May 20

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