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
DOP: Gregor Božič
Editor: Hrvoslava Brkušić
Producers: Vanja Jambrović, Tibor Keser
DOP: Gregor Božič
Editor: Hrvoslava Brkušić
Producers: Vanja Jambrović, Tibor Keser
Sound recorder: Ana Jurčić
Costume designers: Tajči Čekada, Manuela Paladin
Set designer: Anton Spazzapan
Costume designers: Tajči Čekada, Manuela Paladin
Set designer: Anton Spazzapan
Coproducers: Erica Barbiani, Marina Gumzi
Production: Restart
Co-production: Videomante, Nosorogi
Production: Restart
Co-production: Videomante, Nosorogi
IN DEVELOPMMENT
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
- 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
- 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.
