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Mussolini was a dominant influence on the younger generation of socialists before he denounced the P.S.I (Socialist Party of Italy) and founded the Fascist Movement.

He was in fact the acknowledged leader of the party’s left wing and the editor of Avanti!, the party newspaper (Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks).

Michelangelo Antonioni worked on Fascist films during the Second World War.

"During the Second World War he did after all work on Fascist films and as assistant director to Marcel Carné, whose artifice and formal control — although to very different effects — show parallels with the mature Antonioni,” Ian Johnston, Bright Lights Film Journal.

Antonioni, Mida and De Santis worked with Rossellini who had some explicitly Fascist film, according to P.Adams Sitney, vital crises in Italian cinema.

Pier Paolo Pasolini took part in the Fascist government's culture and sports competitions... A trip to Germany helped him to perceive the provincial status of Italian culture in that era. These experiences helped him to rethink his opinion about the cultural politics of Fascism and to switch gradually to a communist position.