Yellow Caesar (1941)

Directors

Alberto Cavalcanti

The story

Yellow Caesar is billed as an "assessment" of the life and rise to power of the self-styled Il Duce, Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. Writing for the BFI's Screenonline website, Mark Duguid comments that the 24 minute short "is an unusually direct piece of agit-prop and probably the most striking of the 30-odd propaganda shorts released by Ealing Studios during WWII." The film traces Mussolini's years as a trade unionist thug and his role as a fascist demagogue.

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