The Bad Poet

Name: The Bad Poet
Released: 2021
Rating: 6.1

2021 · Movie · Il cattivo poeta

106 min Italian

144 votes

HistoryDrama

1936. Giovanni Comini, the youngest Federal in Fascist Italy, is summoned to Rome for a delicate mission: to surveil aging national poet Gabriele D'Annunzio, whose increasingly restless behavior Mussolini fears could damage his alliance with Nazi Germany. However, after spending time with…

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Cast, directors & writers

Sergio Castellitto

Gabriele D'Annunzio

Francesco Patanè

Giovanni Comini

Tommaso Ragno

Giancarlo Maroni

Clotilde Courau

Amélie Mazoyer

Fausto Russo Alesi

Achille Starace

Massimiliano Rossi

Commissario Rizzo

Elena Bucci

Luisa Baccara

Lidia Liberman

Lina

Janina Rudenska

Emy Heufler

Lino Musella

Carletto

Paolo Graziosi

Giovanni's father

Antonio Piovanelli

General Noseda

Marcello Romolo

Giuseppe Cobolli Gigli

Gianluca Jodice

Writer · Director

Keywords

poetry fascism poet biography 1930s italian fascism

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