World War II is about to end. Benito Mussolini, il Duce, supreme dictator of Fascist Italy, sees his totalitarian dream crumbling and his power slipping away as the terrible day of his ignominious death at the hands of those he so ruthlessly oppressed for more than two decades draws inexorably near.

• Anthony Hopkins
• Susan Sarandon
• Bob Hoskins
• Annie Girardot
• Barbara De Rossi
• Dietlinde Turban
• Vittorio Mezzogiorno
• Fabio Testi