Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzVaNTII700

In 1919, the Italian poet, dandy, and glorifier of war Gabriele
D’Annunzio occupied the city of Fiume. The citizens of Fiume (now
Croatia's Rijeka) retell and reinterpret the 16-month occupation of
their city, regarded as one of the most bizarre military sieges of all
time. Incensed that the city — long part of the now-dissolved
Austro-Hungarian Empire, would be ceded to the newly formed Kingdom of
the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later Yugoslavia) despite its large
Italian population — D’Annunzio gathered a few thousand troops and
invaded, intending to annex the city to Italy. Italy wanted no part of
this folly, and after 15 months, D’Annunzio and his forces retreated.
A century later, Bezinović recruits hundreds of Rijeka locals to
recreate scenes from the siege on the streets and in the buildings
where events occurred.

FIUME O MORTE! depicts D’Annunzio as a vain, image-obsessed
trailblazer of political showmanship (which should ring a bell or
two), adapting the performative propaganda employed during the siege
to create a descent into chaos that is shockingly prescient.