The Bad Poet

About 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.

The Bad Poet is a 2021 history film directed by Gianluca Jodice. Its themes are poet, fascism, poetry, and italian fascism.

Sergio Castellitto appears as Gabriele D'Annunzio, Francesco Patanè as Giovanni Comini, Tommaso Ragno as Giancarlo Maroni, and Clotilde Courau as Amélie Mazoyer. At 106 minutes long, it arrived in May 2021.

The screenplay is by Gianluca Jodice.

Leopardi, The King's Speech, and Public Enemies make useful companions to The Bad Poet, all filed under biography. TMDB voters put it at 6.1 out of 10 across 144 votes.