2025, Croatia, Italy, Slovenia

Director: Igor Bezinović
Language: Croatian, Italian

Cast: Izet Medošević, Ćenan Beljulji, Albano Vučetić, Tihomir Buterin, Andrea Marsanich, Massimo Ronzani, Milovan Večerina Cico

1h 52min

10 August 2026 at 9:00 PM – Arrigoni Open-Air Cinema

In 1919, the eccentric Italian poet, dandy and ardent militarist Gabriele D’Annunzio, dissatisfied with the decision of the Paris Peace Conference to assign Fiume – present-day Rijeka – to the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, took matters into his own hands and proclaimed the city an independent state. The sixteen-month occupation that followed is considered one of the most bizarre experiments in the entire history of political rule…

More than a century later, Rijeka-born filmmaker Igor Bezinović invites his fellow citizens to join him in recreating and reinterpreting this unusual chapter in their city’s history.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzVaNTII700

Fiume o morte! is a film about poetry, dynamite, cocaine, machine guns, football, aeroplanes, furniture flying out of windows, concerts, prisons, sunbathing, thousands of soldiers, millions of bullets, endless speeches, a platypus, and the power of political performativity. D’Annunzio could even be regarded as one of its pioneers, a precursor to some of the greatest masters of political spectacle of our time.

Advance ticket sales: Galerija Alga.