To Arms, We Are Fascists!

1h 48m

Documentary History

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Documentary compiled from archives and accompanied by a poet's commentary, shows the sweep of modern Italian history from 1911 to 1961, centering on the conditions leading to Fascism and the post-WWII reaction to the Fascist experience.

Cast

Giancarlo Sbragia

Narrator (voice)

Emilio Cigoli

Narrator (voice)

Nando Gazzolo

Narrator (voice)

Léon Blum

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Eva Braun

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Gabriele D'Annunzio

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Roberto Farinacci

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Francisco Franco

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Hermann Göring

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Heinrich Himmler

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Adolf Hitler

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Vladimir Lenin

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Benito Mussolini

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Joseph Stalin

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Leon Trotsky

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Crew

Lino Del Fra

Director, Screenplay, Story

Cecilia Mangini

Director, Screenplay, Story

Lino Miccichè

Director, Screenplay, Story

Franco Fortini

Co-Writer

Giorgio Urschitz

Editor

Renato Cadueri

Sound Mixer

Egisto Macchi

Original Music Composer

Joris Ivens

Thanks

Alessandro Blasetti

Thanks

Carlo Lizzani

Thanks