About film
Citizens of Rijeka which Italians call Fiume, retell, reconstruct and reinterpret the bizarre story about the 16-month occupation of their city in 1919 by the Italian poet, a dandy and preacher of war Gabriele D’Annunzio.
Fiume o morte!
Fiume o morte!
Director and scriptwriter: Igor Bezinović
Director of photography: Gregor Božič
Editor: Hrvoslava Brkušić
Editor: Hrvoslava Brkušić
Sound recordists: Ana Jurčić, Andrea Blasetig
Costume designers: Tajči Čekada, Manuela Paladin
Set designer: Anton Spazzapan
Costume designers: Tajči Čekada, Manuela Paladin
Set designer: Anton Spazzapan
Casting director: Sara Jakupec
Composers: Hrvoje Nikšić, Giovanni Maier
Sound designer: Eric Guerrino Nardin
Archive researchers: Nika Petković, Carole Grand
Historical consultants: Federico Carlo Simonelli, Ivan Jeličić
Actors playing the part of Gabriele D’Annunzio: Milovan Večerina Cico, Tihomir Buterin, Massimo Ronzani, Albano Vučetić, Ćenan Beljulji, Izet Medošević, Andrea Marsanich
Composers: Hrvoje Nikšić, Giovanni Maier
Sound designer: Eric Guerrino Nardin
Archive researchers: Nika Petković, Carole Grand
Historical consultants: Federico Carlo Simonelli, Ivan Jeličić
Actors playing the part of Gabriele D’Annunzio: Milovan Večerina Cico, Tihomir Buterin, Massimo Ronzani, Albano Vučetić, Ćenan Beljulji, Izet Medošević, Andrea Marsanich
Producers: Vanja Jambrović, Tibor Keser (Restart)
Co-producers: Erica Barbiani (Videomante), Marina Gumzi (Noorogi)
Associate producer: Oliver Sertić (Restart)
Production: Restart (HR)
Co-production: Videomante (IT), Nosorogi (SI), Croatian Radiotelevision (HR)
Co-producers: Erica Barbiani (Videomante), Marina Gumzi (Noorogi)
Associate producer: Oliver Sertić (Restart)
Production: Restart (HR)
Co-production: Videomante (IT), Nosorogi (SI), Croatian Radiotelevision (HR)
languages: Fiuman, Croatian, Italian
- INTERNATIONAL ROTTERDAM FILM FESTIVAL 2025, Rotterdam, NL – Tiger competition
- NEW DIRECTORS/NEW FILMS 2025., New York, US
- LJUBLJANA DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL 2025., Ljubljana, SI
- CPH:DOX 2025., Copenhagen, DK – Backstory competition
- BOLZANO FILM FESTIVAL 2025., Bolzano, IT – BFFB Special program
- ONE WORLD ROMANIA 2025., Bucharest, RO – closing film
- PRIMAVERA DI BELLEZZA 2025., Torino, IT
- CROSSING EUROPE 2025., Linz, AT – Documentary Panorama program
- DOKFEST MUNICH 2025., Munchen, DE – international competition ‘Reframing History: Films Exploring how the Past Shapes our Present’
- BELDOCS 2025., Belgrade, RS – ‘Vatromet’ program
- FESTIVAL INTERNAZIONALE DI CINEMA DOCUMENTARIO E FOTOGRAFIA 2025., Sassari, IT
- STERIJINO POZORJE/FILMSKI KRUGOVI 2025., Novi Sad, RS – oficial selection
- IFFI INNSBRUCK 2025., Innsbruck, AT – documentary competition
- KINO OTOK – ISOLA CINEMA 2025., Isola, SI
- DOCUDAYS UA 2025., Kiev, UA – Docu/Art non-competitional program
- UNDERHILLFEST 2025., Podgorica, ME – regional competition/closing film
- SHANGHAI IFF 2025., Shanghai, CN – ‘International Panorama’ non-competitional program
- TAIPEI FILM FESTIVAL 2025., Taipei, TW – ‘Beyond the Reality’ program (out of competition)
- IFF ART FILM KOSICE 2025., Košice, SK – ‘Love and Anarchy’ program
- MEDITERRANE FILM FESTIVAL 2025., MT – competition
- PULA FILM FESTIVAL 2025., Pula, HR- Croatian film competition
- YEREVAN IFF (GOLDEN APRICOT) 2025., Yerevan, AM – main international full-length competition
- GUANAJUATO IFF 2025., Guanajuato, MX – competition in ‘Documentary Feature’ category
- NEW ZEALAND IFF 2025., NZ – ‘Frames’ competition
- DOKUFEST 2025., Prizren, XK – international competition
- MELBOURNE IFF 2025., Melbourne, AU – ‘Doc Visions’ program
- SARAJEVO FILM FESTIVAL 2025., Sarajevo, BA – ‘Dealing with the past’ program
- PORUCH CONTEMPORARY CULTURE FESTIVAL 2025., Odessa, UA
- MAKEDOX 2025., Skopje, MK – ‘Newcomers section’ program
- VUKOVAR FILM FESTIVAL 2025., Vukovar, HR – documentary competition
- LIBURNIA FILM FESTIVAL 2025., Opatija, HR – ‘Restart’s films’ program
- WAMA FILM FESTIVAL 2025., Olsztyn, PL – opening film
- HELSINKI INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2025., Helsinki, FI
- SAN SEBASTIAN IFF 2025., San Sebastian, ES – closing film of the ‘Zabaltegi-Tabakalera’ Section
- MEDNARODNI FESTIVAL DOKUMENTARNEG FILMA DOKUDOC 2025., Maribor, SLO
- ORTIGIA FILM FESTIVAL 2025., Sicily, IT
- SOFIA DOCUMENTAL 2025., Sofia, BG
- VANCOUVER IFF 2025., Vancouver, CA – ‘Spectrum’ program
- FILMFEST OSNABRÜCK 2025., Osnabrück, DE
- DOKUART 2025., Bjelovar, Croatia – competition
- MEDITERAN FILM FESTIVAL 2025., Široki Brijeg, BIH – documentary competition
- INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL TUZLA 2025., BIH – competition
- FILM FEST GENT 2025., Gent, BE
- DAYS OF CROATIAN FILM 2025, Karlovac, Croatia – competition
- FNC MONTREAL 2025., Montreal, CA – program ‘TBC’
- MIRAGE 2025., Oslo, NO
- BOGOTA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2025., Bogota, CO
- CINEAST 2025., LU – ‘Cinédocs’ program
- BERGEN IFF 2025., NO – ‘Documentaire Extraordinaire’ program
- SAO PAULO IFF 2025., BR – ‘International Perspective’ program
- ADRIATIC FILM AWARDS 2025., Tivat, ME – competition of films from Adriatic region
- AFI FEST 2025., Los Angeles, USA – documentary competition
- JIHLAVA IDFF 2025., Jihlava, CZ – ‘Constellations’ program
- BUDAPEST INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2025., Hungary – competition
- MOSTRA FRONT 2025., Barcelona, ES – out of competition
- SCANORAMA 2025., Vilnius, LT – ‘Wild Cards’ program, out of competition
- BRUSSELS ART FILM FESTIVAL 2025., Brussels, BE
- CAIRO IFF 2025., Kairo, EG
- PORTO/POST/DOC 2025., Porto, PT – international competition
- MAJOR DOCS 2025., Mallorca, ES
- Developed, pitched and presented at:
- CINELINK CO-PRODUCTION MARKET/SARAJEVO FILM FESTIVAL 2018, Sarajevo, BA – EAVE Scolarship Award
- EKRAN + 2019, Warszawa, PL
- EAVE 2019, Luxemburg, LU, Novi Sad, RS, Leipzig, DE
- Documenting Democracy CAS 2022, island Cres, HR
- THIS IS IT 2023., presentation in the framework of WHEAN EAST MEETS WEST, Trst, IT – Laser studio postproduction award
- Work in progress 2023, Pula Film Festival, HR – Best pitch award
- Doc at Work industry program 2023 in the framework of Festival dei Popoli, IT
- East Doc Market 2024 organised by Institute of Documentary Film, CZ
- INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ROTTERDAM 2025, Rotterdam, NL – Tiger Award (Best Film)
- INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ROTTERDAM 2025, Rotterdam, NL – Fipresci Award
- UNDERHILLFEST 2025., Podgorica, ME – Dandelion Award (Best regional film)
- INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL INNSBRUCK 2025., Innsbruck, AT – Award for the Best Documentary film
- AWARD VEDRAN ŠAMANOVIĆ 2025, Croatia- Award for an innovative approach in Croatian film
- PULA FILM FESTIVAL 2025, Croatia – Golden Arena for directing,
- PULA FILM FESTIVAL 2025, Croatia – Golden Arena for production
- PULA FILM FESTIVAL 2025, Croatia – Golden Arena for costume design
- PULA FILM FESTIVAL 2025, Croatia, Golden Arena for set design
- PULA FILM FESTIVAL 2025, Croatia, Golden Arena for casting
- PULA FILM FESTIVAL 2025, Croatia, Golden Arena for mask
- GOLDEN APRICOT – YEREVAN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2025, Armenia – Golden Apricot Award (Best Film)
- MAKEDOX 2025, Skopje, North Macedonia – Young Onion Award
- VUKOVAR FILM FESTIVAL 2025, Croatia – Award for the Best Documentary film
- MEDNARODNI FESTIVAL DOKUMENTARNEG FILMA DOKUDOC 2025., Maribor, SLO – Award for the Best Film
- ORTIGIA FILM FESTIVAL 2025., Sicily, IT – Award for the Best Documentary film
- DOKUART 2025., Bjelovar, Croatia – Audience Award
- MEDITERAN FILM FESTIVAL 2025., Široki Brijeg, BIH – Special mention for the best feature documentary film
- MEDITERAN FILM FESTIVAL 2025., Široki Brijeg, BIH – Special mention for the best camera
- INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL TUZLA 2025., BIH – Award for the Best Film
- DAYS OF CROATIAN FILM 2025, Karlovac, Croatia – Audience Award for the best film
- DAYS OF CROATIAN FILM 2025, Karlovac, Croatia – Jury Award for the best director
- DAYS OF CROATIAN FILM 2025, Karlovac, Croatia – Jury Award for the best composer
- ADRIATIC FILM AWARDS 2025., Tivat, ME – Jury Award for the best film
- ADRIATIC FILM AWARDS 2025., Tivat, ME – Jury Award for the best director
- ADRIATIC FILM AWARDS 2025., Tivat, ME – Jury Award for the best script
- CINEAST FILM FESTIVAL 2025., Luxemburg, LU – Audience Award for the best film
- FESTIVAL SLOVENSKEG FILMA 2025., Portorož, SI – Vesna Award for the best Slovenian minority production
- FESTIVAL SLOVENSKEG FILMA 2025., Portorož, SI – Vesna Award for the best camera
- BUDAPEST INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2025., HU – Audience Award for the Best Film
- Croatian Audiovisual Centre – Script developement, project development, production
- EURIMAGES – co-production support
- CREATIVE EUROPE – MEDIA – Single Project Development
- MiC – Direzione Generale Cinema e audiovisivo, IT
- Fondo per l’Audiovisivo del Friuli Venezia Giulia, IT
- SLOVENSKI FILMSKI CENTAR, SI
- VIBA FILM STUDIO, SI
- HRT, HR
- RTV SLOVENIJA, SLO
- FRIULI VENEZIA GIULIA FILM COMMISSION, IT
- CITY OF ZAGREB, HR
- CITY OF RIJEKA, HR
- RE-ACT – co-development support
- PROCIREP / ANGOA, FR – script development
- SARAJEVO FILM FESTIVAL, BA – CineLink Co-Production Market – EAVE 2019 Scholarship Award
- DHFR – Društvo hrvatskih filmskih redatelja, HR
Igor Bezinović is a filmmaker born in Rijeka, which is now part of Croatia, but at that time belonged to the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, before that partly the Kingdom of Italy and partly the Kingdom of Yugoslavia (and before that the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes), before that the Free State of Fiume, before that the Italian Regency of Carnaro, before that Austria-Hungary… His films include The Blockade (Oktavijan prize for best Croatian documentary in 2012), Veruda (Oktavijan prize for best Croatian documentary in 2015) and A Brief Excursion (Big Golden Arena prize for best Croatian feature in 2017), along with many shorts of all shapes and sizes. His work has been shown internationally at events including IFF Rotterdam, DOK Leipzig, IDFF Jihlava, CPH:DOX, Kurzfilmtage Winterthur, Biennale of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean, Venice Biennale of Architecture (with Hrvoslava Brkušić for Pulska grupa), Museum of the Moving Image, Viennale and the Guanajuato IFF. 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.
