There were very few commercial feature films made during the Italian fascist era that were as openly propagandistic as this famous (notorious?) dramatic paean to the Blackshirts. The story takes place in a small village in Italy in October of 1922, on the eve of the fascist "March on Rome", in which King Victor Emanuel III was persuaded to consign power to Benito Mussolini. Gianfranco Giachetti is Dr. Cardini, a doctor at the local psychiatric hospital, where a strike has been called by the local socialists. Cardini turns to the fascists to help avert the strike. His son Roberto (Mino Doro) rounds up fascist friends to fight those aligned with the strikers and the town's socialists.
Alessandro Blasetti
Director
Gianfranco Giachetti
Dott. Claudio Cardini
Mino Doro
Roberto
Franco Brambilla
Mario
Maria Puccini
La moglie
Barbara Monis
La maestra
Graziella Antonelli
La sorella della maestra
Ugo Ceseri
Marcone
Umberto Sacripante
Il pazzo Tralicò
Graziela Betti
La ragazza del convento
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