Yellow Caesar

In 1941, Italy declared war on Great Britain, and France had fallen. In the same year, filmmaker Alberto Cavalcanti put on his film YELLOW CAESAR as a weapon. This witty film about the dictator Mussolini can compete with any filmportrait about that other despot, Hitler. Every image, every detail is pervaded with the filmmaker's disgust with this unfair demagogue. Though Mussolini's theatrical behaviour lends itself extremely well for such an ironical manipulation, it still requires a man like Cavalcanti to exploit it optimally.