YEAR: 2025

Director: Igor Bezinovic
Croatia, Italy, Slovenia, 2025
Running Time: 112′ Italian, Croatian, Italian Subtitles
Production: Restart, Videomante, Nosorogi, with the contribution of the Ministry of Culture, with the support of the Croatian Audiovisual Centre, City of Zagreb, City of Rijeka, Slovenian Film Center, VIBA Film Studio, Creative Europe, Eurimages, Re-Act, Friuli Venezia Giulia Film Commission
Screenplay: Igor Bezinovic
Cinematography: Gregor Bozic
Editing: Hrvoslava Brkusic
Distribution: Wanted Cinema

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SYNOPSIS
In the aftermath of the First World War, the future of the Adriatic city of Fiume (Rijeka) was uncertain. Although it was claimed by both Italy and Yugoslavia, the politicians negotiating in Versailles assigned it to neither of them.
In September 1919, the flamboyant Italian poet and military officer Gabriele D’Annunzio entered the city and ruled it for the next 16 months while waiting for the Italian politicians to annex it to Italy. Realising nothing is going to happen, he decided to proclaim it a Regency of his own. D’Annunzio was supported by thousands of young Italian soldiers, who took the occupation as a heroic artistic and patriotic adventure. For the politicians on all sides however, it was a disgrace, which they didn’t know how to solve without starting a bloodshed.