Mussolini: The Untold Story

Rachele Mussolini bore five children by Benito Mussolini. Rachele and Benito Mussolini had two daughters, Edda (1910-1995) and Anna Maria (1929-1968), and three sons Vittorio (1916-1997), Bruno (1918-1941), and Romano (1927-2006). Romano went onto become a respected jazz musician, married Sophia Loren's sister Maria and was the father of Alessandra Mussolini, the actor, singer and politician. In her later life, Rachele Mussolini ran a restaurant in her native village of Predappio. She eventually received a pension from the Italian Republic in 1975. It turned out that Mussolini had not received a salary from the state and so she could not receive a pension.

Contrary to the popular myth featured in this miniseries Mussolini did not make the trains on time. Most of the repair work to the Italian railway system were done before Mussolini and his fascists came into power in 1922. Mussolini was just disingenuous in taking credit for those changes.

The UK version removed the scene where Mussolini raped the female reporter from the London Herald (Mrs. Thompson) on his desk.

Featured in Cinemania: I anodos kai i ptosi tou Nazismou (2008)