The Bad Poet

1936. Giovanni Comini, the youngest Federal in Fascist Italy, is summoned to Rome for a delicate mission: to surveil aging national poet Gabriele D'Annunzio, whose increasingly restless behavior Mussolini fears could damage his alliance with Nazi Germany. However, after spending time with D'Annunzio, Comini finds himself torn between loyalty to the Party and his fascination with the poet, who will put his burgeoning career at risk.

• Gianluca JodiceScreenplay
• Gianluca JodiceDirector

• Sergio CastellittoGabriele D'Annunzio
• Francesco PatanèGiovanni Comini
• Tommaso RagnoGiancarlo Maroni
• Clotilde CourauAmélie Mazoyer
• Fausto Russo AlesiAchille Starace
• Massimiliano RossiCommissario Rizzo
• Elena BucciLuisa Baccara
• Lidia LibermanLina
• Janina RudenskaEmy Heufler
• Lino MusellaCarletto
• Paolo GraziosiGiovanni's father
• Antonio PiovanelliGeneral Noseda