Fiume o Morte! Fascism's stranger-than-fiction poet-led first state

For his latest blending of documentary and fiction, filmmaker Igor Bezinovic has turned the camera on a stranger-than-fiction story from the history of his own port city on the Adriatic coast, Rijeka . For Fiume o Morte! which appears in the Whanau Marama New Zealand International Film Festival in Poneke Wellington this week, Bezinovic enlisted 100s of members of his city's own community to reenact their occupation by a fascist poet for 16 months after the first world war.