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Fascism Must Be Stopped

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Abstract
The film shows the history of the emergence and development of fascism in Italy, the revival of neo-fascism. The entire film is based on the chronicle. Travel in carriages, procession of the crowned heads of Italy, Russia, England; the hunt of the German Kaiser for a wild boar. Peasant labor. Protest actions against difficult living conditions, the onset of fascism: barricades, demonstrations, speeches by speakers, dispersal of the demonstration by soldiers. Newsreel of the First World War: bomb explosions, soldiers killed and wounded. Groups of fascists stand in the streets, in the stands; pass and pass in trucks. The year is 1929. Italy. The conclusion of a truce between the state and the church. Photos of the leaders of the anti-fascist movement, including A. Gramshi. Photos and filming of B. Mussolini among his comrades-in-arms, with children, at fascist parades, holidays, performances with speeches (including synchronously in Italian). B. Mussolini on a tractor, a construction site. Filming A. Hitler among officers, at parades, among the people. Speeches with speeches (including simultaneous speech in German). Torchlight processions. Books are burned. Italian soldiers in the African desert. Desert Fight. Leaflets, groups of workers, demonstrations, antifascist congress. War in Spain in 1936. General B. Franko. Soldiers of international brigades. Shooting, soldiers in the trenches, prisoners. Airplanes, explosions, fire are flying. People are running, killed, refugees. The year is 1938. Germany. The signing of the Munich Agreement. Newsreel of the Second World War. The destroyed city of Warsaw. Planes are dropping bombs, explosions, people running. Speeches of A. Hitler and B. Mussolini (synchronously). Burning buildings. Tanks and motorcyclists are going. People are running. The killed, the prisoners, the hanged. Eva Braun with A. Hitler, among children. Fight, train explosion, tanks are coming. German, Italian soldiers. The landing of the allied British and American troops in Sicily in 1943: boats, ships, tanks, soldiers on the shore. Airplanes, bombs. Ruins of houses, people at the ruins. Fascist ceremonies. Fighters of partisan detachments. The battlefield, the soldiers are shooting. Fight on the streets of the city. Killed, wounded, prisoners. People in the streets with flowers. Squares, buildings, cathedrals. 1960 Anti-fascist demonstrations in the streets. Dispersal of the demonstration by the police.
Director
Lino Del Fra, C. Mangini, L. Michchike
Color
B&W
Film ID
20330
Keywords
military communications
, social and political movement
, state power
, great britain
, wars
, architecture
, international connections
, rally and protest
, fascist parties
, protection of the state building
, political connections
, the relationship between the state and the church
, armed forces
, state structure
, borbazamir
Meterage
2157
Number of Parts
8
Other Creators
Music by E. McKee
Release Date
1965
Sound