Some six hundred people, dressed in black, gathered in the northern Italian town of Predappio on Saturday to commemorate the 102nd anniversary of the March on Rome, a key event in the rise of fascism.

Subscribe to our newsletter to receive the most important daily or weekly news on European cinema ...

The fascinating story of the rise to power of dictator Benito Mussolini (1883-1945) in Italy in 1922 and how fascism marked the fate of the entire world in the dark years to come.

But of all his military feats, perhaps his greatest was leading his massive Carthaginian army of men and three-dozen elephants across the Alps and into the heartland of Rome in 218 B.C. Until now ...