Fiume o Morte!
Written and directed: Igor Bezinović
Cinematography: Gregor Božič
Editing: Hrvoslava Brkušić
Sound: Ana Jurčić, Andrea Blasetig, Eric Guerrino Nardin, Julij Zornik
Producers: Vanja Jambrović, Tibor Keser
Production: Restart
Koproducers: Erica Barbiani (videomante), Marina Gumzi (nosorogi)
Festivals: Roterdam 2025| Zlatni tigar
In 1919 the Italian poet, dandy and preacher of war Gabriele D’Annunzio occupied the city of Fiume. The citizens of Fiume, today called Rijeka, retell and reinterpret the bizarre story about the 16-month occupation of their city in a brutally factual yet defiantly punk cinematic journey.
Igor Bezinović is a filmmaker born in Rijeka. His films include The Blockade (Oktavijan prize for best Croatian documentary in 2012), Veruda (Oktavijan prize for best Croatian documentary in 2015) and A Brief Excursion (Big Golden Arena prize for best Croatian feature in 2017), along with many shorts of all shapes and sizes. His work has been shown internationally at events including IFF Rotterdam, DOK Leipzig, IDFF Jihlava, CPH:DOX, Kurzfilmtage Winterthur, Biennale of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean, Venice Biennale of Architecture (with Hrvoslava Brkušić for Pulska grupa), Museum of the Moving Image, Viennale and the Guanajuato IFF. He graduated in film directing at the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb and in Philosophy, Sociology and Comparative Literature at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb.