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The film is set in a small Italian town in 1922, where a local group of Fascist blackshirts battle against rival socialists who have called a strike at the hospital. Mario, the young son of Doctor Cardini, is killed in the fighting.
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"What can you say about a film as well made as anything of it's day and also the most outspoken movie endorsement of the reviled Mussolini (one photo at Fascist H.Q.) government. In a little Italian town in 1922, we kick off with Church bells against the dawn sky line (cf. Blassetti's La TAVOLA DEI POVERI) and pretty soon we're into the divisions in the town.Right thinking fascists like Dr. Giachetti's family vs. the rather shadowy gangster socialist element Young Brambilla and his brothers band up with the local comic barber,and when the nasty socialists stoning the barber..."
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The film is set in a small Italian town in 1922, where a local group of Fascist blackshirts battle against rival socialists who have called a strike at the hospital. Mario, the young son of Doctor Cardini, is killed in the fighting.