But me I was not asking nothing else to be the most loved

At Cannes, there a scandal: "Vincere", Marco Bellocchio, is left empty-handed. Yet, this film with a devastating power, lyricism, wild, could claim to be a major award, including the palme d'Or. Everything in this film is worn at the top to make a work of reference: the subject, poignant; the mise en scène, inspired; the set of actors, admirable. Giovanna Mezzogiorno, which embodies Ida Dasler, hidden Benito Mussolini's women, in particular, would have won the award for best actress. It is shocking.

In the early 20th century, Ida Dasler is an emancipated woman. Girl of good family, holder of a diploma beautician obtained in Paris, she installs a 'French' beauty salon in Milan. It is not thirty years. And it is love, passionately. It is called Mussolini. He wrote letters full of fever, signed "your friend wild and lover, Benito.Brilliant speaker to blood temperament, virulent editorial, it is the rising star of the Socialist Party. Favour of the intervention of the Italy in the first world war, he resigned from his newspaper "avanti!" and founded "Il Popolo d'Italia". It is Ida to provide money, selling his apartment, his furniture, jewellery and even her beauty salon. November 11, 1915, a son was born of their union, named Benito Albino. But a month later, on 17 December, Mussolini, hospitalized after a wound received at the front, wife Rachele Guidi, which it already has a daughter, Edda, born in 1910.

IDA, rejected, shouted to the scandal. It claims to have been married religiously in September 1914. This fact has never been proven because the pages of the parish register that could mention were uprooted. However, the future Duce well recognized his son at birth, even if a few years later, in 1932, he would falsify the civil State.

Common grave

Raised in a religious College which he cannot possibly even during the holidays, monitored continually by the political police, Benito son will be enrolled in the Italian Navy. Finally, he is interned in a psychiatric hospital where he will suffer the worst treatment. He died in 1942, at the age of twenty-six years, five years after his mother, that he will never reviewed.

For years, Ida, vainglorious injured woman, will seek to assert its rights to see his son with a determination of more aggressive as the years pass. Ignoring the threats confronting the worst vexations, it will be locked several times. Confronted with the negation of its existence and that of his son, it will write hundreds of letters to the prefect of thirty friends for the first time become the pillars of the regime, the directors of newspapers, the Pope, finally: "I loved him, he loved me, he promised to make me the most envied women." But me I was not asking nothing else to be the most loved.

As his son, the magnificent Ida will be buried in a mass grave. During this time, the "legitimate" wife of Il Duce, surrounded by his offspring, played to the farmer in the Torlonia villa where raising chickens and pigs. Extensively misled by her husband, she used to say: "I am not the wife of Mussolini, I am the mother of his children.".