The story starts at the point in Benito Mussolini's life when, at the age of nineteen, he gave up being a schoolmaster, left his home town of Forli and, as a guest worker on a building-site in Lausanne, Switzerland, underwent his own personal experience of the darker sides of the capitalist system. The speed with which the rhetorically gifted demagogue manages to assemble whole crowds of friends and followers around him - including above all his "protectress", the enigmatic Russian woman Angelika - is reflected in the speed at which he succeeds in attracting enemies from church and state.
Il giovane Mussolini è una miniserie televisiva di produzione italo/ceca/tedesca/spagnolo trasmessa nel 1993 in tre puntate da novanta minuti ciascuna da Rai Due
A Benito Mussolini, que era profesor de instituto, ciertos asuntos románticos le costaron el exilio en Suiza. Allí trabajó como obrero y conoció de primera mano la opresión de los trabajadores. De vuelta a Italia, se casó con su amor de juventud y se unió al Partido Socialista Italiano, donde destacó como radical y como director del Avanti!, importante periódico italiano de ideología izquierdista.
