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
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
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
- HELSINKI FILM FESTIVAL 2025., Helsinki, FI
- SAN SEBASTIAN FILM FESTIVAL 2025., San Sebastian, ES – ‘Zabaltegi-Tabakalera’ program
- MIRAGE 2025., Oslo, NO
- FNC MONTREAL 2025., Montreal, CA – ‘TBC’ program
- FILM FEST GENT 2025., Gent, BE
- SCANORAMA 2025., Vilnius, LT
- BRUSSELS ART FILM FESTIVAL 2025., Brussels, BE
- CAIRO IFF 2025., Cairo, EG
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) & Fipresci Award
UNDERHILLFEST 2025., Podgorica, ME – Dandelion Award (Best regional film)
INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL INNSBRUCK 2025., Innsbruck, AT – Award for the Best Documentary 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.
