Igor Bezinović's documentary "River or Death!" has won one of the most important awards of the year in European cinema. At the 2026 European Film Awards ceremony—the 38th edition of the European Film Academy awards—held this evening, Saturday, January 17, in Berlin, the film was named Best European Documentary, confirming the European film community's appreciation for an ambitious and original project. Directed by Bezinović and produced by Vanja Jambrović and Tibor Keser for the production company Restart, the film is a co-production between Croatia, Italy, and Slovenia that explores...

On the occasion of the anniversary of Gabriele d'Annunzio's entry into Fiume at the head of his Legionaries on 12 September 1919, the online edition of Il Giornale interviewed Marino Micich, historian, director of the Historical Archive-Museum of Fiume and general secretary of the Society of Fiumani Studies (www.fiume-rijeka.it). «Gabriele D'Annunzio - poet and heroic fighter in the Great War, well-known in Italy for his flights over Vienna and Trieste, as well as for the so-called “Buccari Hoax” - placed himself at the head of a movement of opinion that in the name of the “Mutilated Victory”, contested the excessive compliance of the Italian government at the tables of the...

It is clear that public opinion has no objections to Gabriele Rapagnetta's poetic-literary legacy, except for some aspects, more or less fundamental, morally outside the canons of their time. On the other hand, on what was carried out militarily with the so-called Fiume Enterprise, even today, over a hundred years later, divisions and historical and political debates inflame the pages of local news. This year too, albeit with more subdued tones than what has been seen in other temporal moments, September 12 was the day of the Poet with the usual commemoration in front of the monument which, for three quarters in Monfalcone and a quarter in Ronchi dei...

More than a hundred years after Gabriele d'Annunzio's enterprise, which began with the entry into the disputed city on September 12, 1919, Fiume represents a decisive passage in the history of Italy between the two world wars and marks the beginning of the crisis of the Italian liberal state. The march and the sixteen months of life of the city-state are configured for many as an unrepeatable existential experience, for others as an ideal scenario for future political-institutional structures. Veterans of the Great War, daredevils, students and futurists participate with burning passion. The military adventure to reclaim the city, inhabited mostly by Italians, for the motherland will give renewed...

As per tradition, this year too, the Fiume Section of the National League, in synergy with the Municipality of Monfalcone and the Committee for the Historical-Literary Valorization of Gabriele d'Annunzio of Ronchi dei Legionari, commemorated the Fiume Enterprise, an important piece of Fiume and Italian history in the short century. The ceremony took place at the monument that commemorates the departure of the column of deserters from the Royal Army and volunteers who, on the night between 11 and 12 September 1919, followed d'Annunzio on the march towards Fiume, whose Italian National Council had requested annexation to the Kingdom of Italy in the name of the principle of self-determination of peoples as early as 30...

On September 12, 1919, the Italian population of Fiume triumphantly welcomed Gabriele d'Annunzio at the head of his column of volunteers and deserters from the Royal Army. A coup that was intended to resolve the diplomatic stalemate regarding the definition of the new border between Italy and the newly formed Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. Among the many publications published on the occasion of the recent centenary of the Fiume enterprise, we highlight today the work of the young military historian Leonardo Malatesta "The Fiume Enterprise. D'Annunzio and his legionaries in Dalmatia from 1919 to 1920". Fiume, the Holocaust City. Over the course of the short century it was at the center of many historical events. One of...

On Sunday 7 August Controcultura, the Sunday supplement of the daily newspaper Il Giornale, dedicated ample space to Gabriele d'Annunzio and his Fiume enterprise, but from a perspective that was still not very thorough. Three articles, in fact, explored how public opinion, the press and literature saw the adventure of the Poet from abroad; particularly interesting are the references found in the work of Marcel...

The most beautiful memoir on the legendary enterprise of Gabriele d'Annunzio and his generous legionaries is back Léon Kochnitzky (1892-1965) was a leading figure in the Fiume enterprise (1919-1920). Gabriele d'Annunzio entrusted his admirer, a Belgian poet in love with Italy, with the "external relations". Léon, together with another great figure, Henry Furst, was in fact the press and propaganda office of the city-state. He left Fiume when he understood that Gabriele d'Annunzio would not go all the way and would not pursue a true alliance with Bolshevik Russia. The months in Fiume remained the fundamental experience of his life, however,...

The Association of Italian Fiumani in the World - Free Municipality of Fiume in Exile and the Society of Fiumani Studies will be in Padua to talk about Fiume through history. Sunday 22 May, conference and exhibition to remember the contribution of talented intellectuals to the Enterprise of Fiume. At 15 pm, at Palazzo Moroni, Paladin room, after the institutional greetings of Andrea Colasio, Councilor for Culture of the Municipality of Padua and Franco Papetti, President of the Association of Italian Fiumani in the World-LCFE, the conference entitled "Giovanni Comisso and Mario Botter in D'Annunzio's Fiume" will begin. Speakers: Giovanni Stelli, president of SSF of Rome who will focus on "The Fiumani and...