Robbing Mussolini

Milan, April 1945. The city, now in ruins, burns under the bombings. The Resistance and the Allies are about to definitively wipe out the remnants of a fascist regime now ready to flee, and the only thing everyone wants is to survive. Isola, a black market smuggler, knows this well. He and his companions, Marcello and Amedeo, try to save their skin while selling weapons to the partisans. His fiancée Yvonne, a singer, also knows it. She is forced to endure the attentions of Borsalino, a ruthless fascist hierarch ready to flee to Switzerland with Benito Mussolini's gold in the event of the regime's defeat. The same gold that Isola has set his sights on stealing to turn his life around and because, as a thief, it's the only thing he's good at.^[3]

In his review for Cineuropa, Davide Abbatescianni defined the film as "another missed opportunity." He highlighted how "the acting performances, which are all sadly below par, are heavily constricted by weak writing when it comes to character construction, and superficial when exploring conflict," adding that "the film’s narrative subplots are disappointingly predictable."^[2]