The Wind, in the Evening (Italian: Il vento, di sera) is a 2004 Italian drama film written and directed by Andrea Adriatico. Loosely inspired by the killing of Marco Biagi, it was screened in the Forum section at the 54th Berlin International Film Festival.
, 5h7 GenresDrama ThemesPolitical films ActorsAntonio Banderas, Susanne Lothar, Anna Geislerová, Ivano Marescotti, Luca Zingaretti Rating58% The movie starts off with Mussolini arriving in a small town in 1901 and getting a job as a school teacher; he is subsequently fired for having sex with the headmaster's daughter. This would be a common theme throughout the movie. After giving up on teaching, he works as a builder on the new University of Geneva campus building, and where a lover persuades him to become a student. This is also where he organizes his first protest after the death of a worker he knew. For this, he is nearly deported but is saved by Angelica's intervention. After getting run out of then-Austro-Hungarian Trieste, he goes back to his hometown of Forlì, where he marries Rachele. Soon he is at the forefront of the Socialist movement when he becomes the editor-in-chief of Avanti!. At this point Mussolini unites the "reds," the Socialists, with the "yellows," the Republicans in an anti-war movement. This marks the peak of his power, with the Italian left-wing politics under his control. However, he gradually loses his anti-war fervor and splits from the Socialist party altogether, turning all his allies into enemies.