The Fascist: The pit-stop

The Casa del Fascio (House of the Fascist Party) where Arcovazzi (Tognazzi) and Bonafé (Wilson) stop on their way to Rome is, as is well known, in Genzano di Roma (RM), in the central Piazza Tommaso Frasconi. Today it is home to the S. Pertini Professional Institute. The information is readily available on the Internet but, given the historical charm of the old building, the location deserves to be with the others.

PLOT:
Arcovazzi, a fascist in the militia, has to arrest a well-known philosopher who has always been an opponent of the regime, Professor Bonafè: the film recounts in a satirical key the relationship between the two characters, the odyssey they undertake through occupied Italy in 1944 to reach Rome and the friendship that is established between them despite their ideological differences. In Rome, Arcovazzi parades with the uniform of a federalist, but the city has been liberated by the Allies and the population, after much discontent, lashes out at him. It is the good professor Bonafè who saves him. 

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