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  • AFFILE, ITALY - 23 AUGUST 2012: A wreath was left on the tomb of fascist Marshall Rodolfo Graziani for the opening ceremony of the mausoleum dedicated to him in Affile, a town with a population of 1,600 80km east of Rome, on August 23, 2012. A mausoleum and park, dedicated to the memory of Fascist Field Marshall Rodolfo Graziani, has recently been opened in the Italian town of Affile. At a cost of €127,000 to local taxpayers, the mayor Ercole Viri has expressed hope that the site will become as ‘famous and as popular as Predappio’ – the burial place of Mussolini which has become a shrine to neo-Fascists. Rodolfo Graziani was the youngest colonel in the Regio Esercito (Royal Italian Army), known as the "Butcher of Fezzan" and the "Butcher of Ethiopia" for the brutal military campaigns and gas attacks he led in Libya and Ethiopia under the dictatorship of Benito Mussolini under which he then became Minister of Defence from 1943 to 1945.
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  • AFFILE, ITALY - 23 AUGUST 2012: Men gather in the central square of Affile, a town with a population of 1,600 80km east of Rome, on August 23, 2012. A mausoleum and park, dedicated to the memory of Fascist Field Marshall Rodolfo Graziani, has recently been opened in the Italian town of Affile. At a cost of €127,000 to local taxpayers, the mayor Ercole Viri has expressed hope that the site will become as ‘famous and as popular as Predappio’ – the burial place of Mussolini which has become a shrine to neo-Fascists. Rodolfo Graziani was the youngest colonel in the Regio Esercito (Royal Italian Army), known as the "Butcher of Fezzan" and the "Butcher of Ethiopia" for the brutal military campaigns and gas attacks he led in Libya and Ethiopia under the dictatorship of Benito Mussolini under which he then became Minister of Defence from 1943 to 1945.
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  • AFFILE, ITALY - 23 AUGUST 2012: (L/R) Aldo Graziani (78), Giandomenico Abbafatt (43) and ex-mayor of Affile Diego Moriconi, 61, discuss about the collaboration with Nazis in World War II, in Affile, a town with a population of 1,600 80km east of Rome, on August 23, 2012. A mausoleum and park, dedicated to the memory of Fascist Field Marshall Rodolfo Graziani, has recently been opened in the Italian town of Affile. At a cost of €127,000 to local taxpayers, the mayor Ercole Viri has expressed hope that the site will become as ‘famous and as popular as Predappio’ – the burial place of Mussolini which has become a shrine to neo-Fascists. Rodolfo Graziani was the youngest colonel in the Regio Esercito (Royal Italian Army), known as the "Butcher of Fezzan" and the "Butcher of Ethiopia" for the brutal military campaigns and gas attacks he led in Libya and Ethiopia under the dictatorship of Benito Mussolini under which he then became Minister of Defence from 1943 to 1945.
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  • AFFILE, ITALY - 23 AUGUST 2012: (L/R) Aldo Graziani (78), Giandomenico Abbafatt (43) and ex-mayor of Affile Diego Moriconi, 61, discuss about the collaboration with Nazis in World War II, in Affile, a town with a population of 1,600 80km east of Rome, on August 23, 2012. A mausoleum and park, dedicated to the memory of Fascist Field Marshall Rodolfo Graziani, has recently been opened in the Italian town of Affile. At a cost of €127,000 to local taxpayers, the mayor Ercole Viri has expressed hope that the site will become as ‘famous and as popular as Predappio’ – the burial place of Mussolini which has become a shrine to neo-Fascists. Rodolfo Graziani was the youngest colonel in the Regio Esercito (Royal Italian Army), known as the "Butcher of Fezzan" and the "Butcher of Ethiopia" for the brutal military campaigns and gas attacks he led in Libya and Ethiopia under the dictatorship of Benito Mussolini under which he then became Minister of Defence from 1943 to 1945.
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  • AFFILE, ITALY - 23 AUGUST 2012: Sante Mosetti, member of the Cultural Association Marshall Rodolfo Graziani, closes the gate of the cemetery where the fascist marsahll was buried, in Affile, a town with a population of 1,600 80km east of Rome, on August 23, 2012. A mausoleum and park, dedicated to the memory of Fascist Field Marshall Rodolfo Graziani, has recently been opened in the Italian town of Affile. At a cost of €127,000 to local taxpayers, the mayor Ercole Viri has expressed hope that the site will become as ‘famous and as popular as Predappio’ – the burial place of Mussolini which has become a shrine to neo-Fascists. Rodolfo Graziani was the youngest colonel in the Regio Esercito (Royal Italian Army), known as the "Butcher of Fezzan" and the "Butcher of Ethiopia" for the brutal military campaigns and gas attacks he led in Libya and Ethiopia under the dictatorship of Benito Mussolini under which he then became Minister of Defence from 1943 to 1945.
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  • AFFILE, ITALY - 23 AUGUST 2012: Mayor of Affile Ercole Viri, 52, stands by the mausoleum and park dedicated to fascist Marshall Rodolfo Graziani with engraved the words "Fatherland" and "Honor" in Affile, a town with a population of 1,600 80km east of Rome, on August 23, 2012. A mausoleum and park, dedicated to the memory of Fascist Field Marshall Rodolfo Graziani, has recently been opened in the Italian town of Affile. At a cost of €127,000 to local taxpayers, the mayor Ercole Viri has expressed hope that the site will become as ‘famous and as popular as Predappio’ – the burial place of Mussolini which has become a shrine to neo-Fascists. Rodolfo Graziani was the youngest colonel in the Regio Esercito (Royal Italian Army), known as the "Butcher of Fezzan" and the "Butcher of Ethiopia" for the brutal military campaigns and gas attacks he led in Libya and Ethiopia under the dictatorship of Benito Mussolini under which he then became Minister of Defence from 1943 to 1945.
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  • AFFILE, ITALY - 23 AUGUST 2012: Mayor of Affile Ercole Viri, 52, stands by the bust of fascist Marshall Rodolfo Graziani in the mausoleum dedicated to him in Affile, a town with a population of 1,600 80km east of Rome, on August 23, 2012. A mausoleum and park, dedicated to the memory of Fascist Field Marshall Rodolfo Graziani, has recently been opened in the Italian town of Affile. At a cost of €127,000 to local taxpayers, the mayor Ercole Viri has expressed hope that the site will become as ‘famous and as popular as Predappio’ – the burial place of Mussolini which has become a shrine to neo-Fascists. Rodolfo Graziani was the youngest colonel in the Regio Esercito (Royal Italian Army), known as the "Butcher of Fezzan" and the "Butcher of Ethiopia" for the brutal military campaigns and gas attacks he led in Libya and Ethiopia under the dictatorship of Benito Mussolini under which he then became Minister of Defence from 1943 to 1945.
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  • AFFILE, ITALY - 23 AUGUST 2012: The bust of fascist Marsahll Rodolfo Graziani is in the mausoleum dedicated to him in Affile, a town with a population of 1,600 80km east of Rome, on August 23, 2012. A mausoleum and park, dedicated to the memory of Fascist Field Marshall Rodolfo Graziani, has recently been opened in the Italian town of Affile. At a cost of €127,000 to local taxpayers, the mayor Ercole Viri has expressed hope that the site will become as ‘famous and as popular as Predappio’ – the burial place of Mussolini which has become a shrine to neo-Fascists. Rodolfo Graziani was the youngest colonel in the Regio Esercito (Royal Italian Army), known as the "Butcher of Fezzan" and the "Butcher of Ethiopia" for the brutal military campaigns and gas attacks he led in Libya and Ethiopia under the dictatorship of Benito Mussolini under which he then became Minister of Defence from 1943 to 1945.
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  • AFFILE, ITALY - 23 AUGUST 2012: Newspapers of 1951 featuring fascist Marsahll Rodolfo Graziani are exposed in the mausoleum dedicated to him in Affile, a town with a population of 1,600 80km east of Rome, on August 23, 2012. A mausoleum and park, dedicated to the memory of Fascist Field Marshall Rodolfo Graziani, has recently been opened in the Italian town of Affile. At a cost of €127,000 to local taxpayers, the mayor Ercole Viri has expressed hope that the site will become as ‘famous and as popular as Predappio’ – the burial place of Mussolini which has become a shrine to neo-Fascists. Rodolfo Graziani was the youngest colonel in the Regio Esercito (Royal Italian Army), known as the "Butcher of Fezzan" and the "Butcher of Ethiopia" for the brutal military campaigns and gas attacks he led in Libya and Ethiopia under the dictatorship of Benito Mussolini under which he then became Minister of Defence from 1943 to 1945.
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  • AFFILE, ITALY - 23 AUGUST 2012: Mayor of Affile Ercole Viri, 52, stands by a board and a bust of fascist Marshall Rodolfo Graziani in the mausoleum dedicated to him in Affile, a town with a population of 1,600 80km east of Rome, on August 23, 2012. A mausoleum and park, dedicated to the memory of Fascist Field Marshall Rodolfo Graziani, has recently been opened in the Italian town of Affile. At a cost of €127,000 to local taxpayers, the mayor Ercole Viri has expressed hope that the site will become as ‘famous and as popular as Predappio’ – the burial place of Mussolini which has become a shrine to neo-Fascists. Rodolfo Graziani was the youngest colonel in the Regio Esercito (Royal Italian Army), known as the "Butcher of Fezzan" and the "Butcher of Ethiopia" for the brutal military campaigns and gas attacks he led in Libya and Ethiopia under the dictatorship of Benito Mussolini under which he then became Minister of Defence from 1943 to 1945.
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  • AFFILE, ITALY - 23 AUGUST 2012: Mariano Palombi, 98, the oldest man of Affile, a town with a population of 1,600 80km east of Rome, on August 23, 2012. A mausoleum and park, dedicated to the memory of Fascist Field Marshall Rodolfo Graziani, has recently been opened in the Italian town of Affile. At a cost of €127,000 to local taxpayers, the mayor Ercole Viri has expressed hope that the site will become as ‘famous and as popular as Predappio’ – the burial place of Mussolini which has become a shrine to neo-Fascists. Rodolfo Graziani was the youngest colonel in the Regio Esercito (Royal Italian Army), known as the "Butcher of Fezzan" and the "Butcher of Ethiopia" for the brutal military campaigns and gas attacks he led in Libya and Ethiopia under the dictatorship of Benito Mussolini under which he then became Minister of Defence from 1943 to 1945.
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  • AFFILE, ITALY - 23 AUGUST 2012: Mariano Palombi, 98, the oldest man of Affile, a town with a population of 1,600 80km east of Rome, on August 23, 2012. A mausoleum and park, dedicated to the memory of Fascist Field Marshall Rodolfo Graziani, has recently been opened in the Italian town of Affile. At a cost of €127,000 to local taxpayers, the mayor Ercole Viri has expressed hope that the site will become as ‘famous and as popular as Predappio’ – the burial place of Mussolini which has become a shrine to neo-Fascists. Rodolfo Graziani was the youngest colonel in the Regio Esercito (Royal Italian Army), known as the "Butcher of Fezzan" and the "Butcher of Ethiopia" for the brutal military campaigns and gas attacks he led in Libya and Ethiopia under the dictatorship of Benito Mussolini under which he then became Minister of Defence from 1943 to 1945.
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  • AFFILE, ITALY - 23 AUGUST 2012: Luciano Battiglieri, 52, is the owner of Bar San Sebastiano where fascist Marshall Rodolfo Graziani is remembered in exposed books and postcards in Affile, a town with a population of 1,600 80km east of Rome, on August 23, 2012. A mausoleum and park, dedicated to the memory of Fascist Field Marshall Rodolfo Graziani, has recently been opened in the Italian town of Affile. At a cost of €127,000 to local taxpayers, the mayor Ercole Viri has expressed hope that the site will become as ‘famous and as popular as Predappio’ – the burial place of Mussolini which has become a shrine to neo-Fascists. Rodolfo Graziani was the youngest colonel in the Regio Esercito (Royal Italian Army), known as the "Butcher of Fezzan" and the "Butcher of Ethiopia" for the brutal military campaigns and gas attacks he led in Libya and Ethiopia under the dictatorship of Benito Mussolini under which he then became Minister of Defence from 1943 to 1945.
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  • AFFILE, ITALY - 23 AUGUST 2012: Luciano Battiglieri, 52, owner of Bar San Sebastiano, flips through the pages of a book on fascist Marsall Rodolfo Graziani in Affile, a town with a population of 1,600 80km east of Rome, on August 23, 2012. A mausoleum and park, dedicated to the memory of Fascist Field Marshall Rodolfo Graziani, has recently been opened in the Italian town of Affile. At a cost of €127,000 to local taxpayers, the mayor Ercole Viri has expressed hope that the site will become as ‘famous and as popular as Predappio’ – the burial place of Mussolini which has become a shrine to neo-Fascists. Rodolfo Graziani was the youngest colonel in the Regio Esercito (Royal Italian Army), known as the "Butcher of Fezzan" and the "Butcher of Ethiopia" for the brutal military campaigns and gas attacks he led in Libya and Ethiopia under the dictatorship of Benito Mussolini under which he then became Minister of Defence from 1943 to 1945.
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  • AFFILE, ITALY - 23 AUGUST 2012: Fliers of faschist Marshall Rodolfo Graziani are scotched on the wall of Bar San Sebastiano in Affile, a town with a population of 1,600 80km east of Rome, on August 23, 2012. A mausoleum and park, dedicated to the memory of Fascist Field Marshall Rodolfo Graziani, has recently been opened in the Italian town of Affile. At a cost of €127,000 to local taxpayers, the mayor Ercole Viri has expressed hope that the site will become as ‘famous and as popular as Predappio’ – the burial place of Mussolini which has become a shrine to neo-Fascists. Rodolfo Graziani was the youngest colonel in the Regio Esercito (Royal Italian Army), known as the "Butcher of Fezzan" and the "Butcher of Ethiopia" for the brutal military campaigns and gas attacks he led in Libya and Ethiopia under the dictatorship of Benito Mussolini under which he then became Minister of Defence from 1943 to 1945.
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  • AFFILE (RM), ITALY - 23 AUGUST 2012: View of Affile, a town with a population of 1,600 80km east of Rome, where a mausoleum and a park dedicated to the memory of Fascist Field Marshall Rodolfo Graziani has recently been opened. At a cost of €127,000 to local taxpayers, the mayor Ercole Viri has expressed hope that the site will become as ‘famous and as popular as Predappio’ – the burial place of Mussolini which has become a shrine to neo-Fascists. Rodolfo Graziani was the youngest colonel in the Regio Esercito (Royal Italian Army), known as the "Butcher of Fezzan" and the "Butcher of Ethiopia" for the brutal military campaigns and gas attacks he led in Libya and Ethiopia under the dictatorship of Benito Mussolini under which he then became Minister of Defence from 1943 to 1945.
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  • AFFILE, ITALY - 23 AUGUST 2012: Mayor of Affile Ercole Viri, 52, stands by the mausoleum and park dedicated to fascist Marshall Rodolfo Graziani with engraved the words "Fatherland" and "Honor" in Affile, a town with a population of 1,600 80km east of Rome, on August 23, 2012. A mausoleum and park, dedicated to the memory of Fascist Field Marshall Rodolfo Graziani, has recently been opened in the Italian town of Affile. At a cost of €127,000 to local taxpayers, the mayor Ercole Viri has expressed hope that the site will become as ‘famous and as popular as Predappio’ – the burial place of Mussolini which has become a shrine to neo-Fascists. Rodolfo Graziani was the youngest colonel in the Regio Esercito (Royal Italian Army), known as the "Butcher of Fezzan" and the "Butcher of Ethiopia" for the brutal military campaigns and gas attacks he led in Libya and Ethiopia under the dictatorship of Benito Mussolini under which he then became Minister of Defence from 1943 to 1945.
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  • AFFILE, ITALY - 23 AUGUST 2012: A bottle of red wine with a portrait of Benitor Mussolini is on the sheld of Bar San Sebastiano in Affile, a town with a population of 1,600 80km east of Rome, on August 23, 2012. A mausoleum and park, dedicated to the memory of Fascist Field Marshall Rodolfo Graziani, has recently been opened in the Italian town of Affile. At a cost of €127,000 to local taxpayers, the mayor Ercole Viri has expressed hope that the site will become as ‘famous and as popular as Predappio’ – the burial place of Mussolini which has become a shrine to neo-Fascists. Rodolfo Graziani was the youngest colonel in the Regio Esercito (Royal Italian Army), known as the "Butcher of Fezzan" and the "Butcher of Ethiopia" for the brutal military campaigns and gas attacks he led in Libya and Ethiopia under the dictatorship of Benito Mussolini under which he then became Minister of Defence from 1943 to 1945.
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  • AFFILE (RM), ITALY - 23 AUGUST 2012: A man walk in the center of Affile, a town with a population of 1,600 80km east of Rome, where a mausoleum and a park dedicated to the memory of Fascist Field Marshall Rodolfo Graziani has recently been opened. At a cost of €127,000 to local taxpayers, the mayor Ercole Viri has expressed hope that the site will become as ‘famous and as popular as Predappio’ – the burial place of Mussolini which has become a shrine to neo-Fascists. Rodolfo Graziani was the youngest colonel in the Regio Esercito (Royal Italian Army), known as the "Butcher of Fezzan" and the "Butcher of Ethiopia" for the brutal military campaigns and gas attacks he led in Libya and Ethiopia under the dictatorship of Benito Mussolini under which he then became Minister of Defence from 1943 to 1945.
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  • AFFILE (RM), ITALY - 23 AUGUST 2012: View of Affile, a town with a population of 1,600 80km east of Rome, where a mausoleum and a park dedicated to the memory of Fascist Field Marshall Rodolfo Graziani has recently been opened. At a cost of €127,000 to local taxpayers, the mayor Ercole Viri has expressed hope that the site will become as ‘famous and as popular as Predappio’ – the burial place of Mussolini which has become a shrine to neo-Fascists. Rodolfo Graziani was the youngest colonel in the Regio Esercito (Royal Italian Army), known as the "Butcher of Fezzan" and the "Butcher of Ethiopia" for the brutal military campaigns and gas attacks he led in Libya and Ethiopia under the dictatorship of Benito Mussolini under which he then became Minister of Defence from 1943 to 1945.
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  • ROCCA DI PAPA, ITALY - 18 OCTOBER 2022: Gino del Nero (73), a right wing activist, poses for a portrait in Rocca di Papa, Italy, on October 18th 2022.<br />
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Gino del Nero recalls being insulted, sidelined, and silenced by leftists, but also neighbors and co-workers for being a young card-carrying member the MSI (Italian Social Movement), a party formed from the ashes of Benito Mussolini’s fascist party after theSecond World War.  But after Giorgia Meloni, the right wing political leader who came of age in the same party, emerged from last month’s elections as the likely next prime minister of Italy, Mr. Del Nero, felt liberated. “We are freer now”, he said. His loyalty to the right had come at a cost, he said, years of being excluded from workers’ union meetings at the hospital where he worked. Colleagues silenced him in discussions. People often dismissed him as a “fascist.” “It’s a mark we carry inside,” he said. “Now I feel vindicated.”<br />
<br />
Giorgia Meloni said her victory would be a “payback for so many people who in this nation had to lower her head for decades,” but also “for all the people who saw it differently from the mainstream and the dominant power system.” They were, she said, “treated as the children of a lesser God.” As Italy debates why Ms. Meloni did so well in the elections — if it had to do more with Italy’s voracious appetite for something new or a shift to the right — her victory clearly provided a vindication to right wing loyalists who for years endured marginalization.
    CIPG_20221018_NYT-MSI-Meloni-Payback...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 15 JULY 2015: The bunker, built between 1942 and 1943 to protect Benito Mussolini and his family, is here under the Casino Nobile (and Museum of Villa Torlonia) in Villa Torlonia, Rome, Italy, on July 15th 2015.<br />
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Villa Torlonia is a villa and surrounding gardens formerly belonging to the Torlonia family, a Roman noble family who acquired a huge fortune in the 18th and 19th centuries through administering the finances of the Vatican. In 1925 the Villa was given to Mussolini as a residence, where he remained until 1943, with few changes to the aboveground structures. Between 1942 and 1943 an air-raid shelter was first built in the garden of the villa, and then a much larger and more complex airtight bunker was built under the villa itself, with the intention of resisting both aerial bombardment and chemical warfare.
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  • ROME, ITALY - 30 MARCH 2015: A Roman temple of the set of "Rome", the British-American-Italian broadcasted between 2005 and 2007 on HBO, BBC Two and RaiDue, is seen here from behind the scenes in Cinecittà in Rome, Italy, on March 30th 2015.<br />
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Italy instated a special 25% tax credit for film productions in 2010. The industry then lobbied to remove the credit’s cap, and last July, Italy lifted its tax credit limit from €5 million per movie to €10 million per company per year. <br />
 <br />
Cinecittà, a large film studio in Rome, is considered the hub of Italian cinema. The studios were founded in 1937 by Benito Mussolini as part of a scheme to revive the Italian film industry. In the 1950s, the number of international productions being made here led to Rome being dubbed as the "Hollywood on the Tiber". In the 1950s, Cinecittà was the filming location for several large American film productions like Ben-Hur, and then became the studio most closely associated with Federico Fellini.<br />
After a period of near-bankruptcy, the Italian Government privatized Cinecittà in 1997, selling an 80% stake.<br />
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Currently Ben-Hur and Zoolander 2 are booked into Cinecittà Studios.
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  • ROME, ITALY - 30 MARCH 2015: The prop of the Medusa of "Fellini's Casanova", a 1976 film by director Federico Fellini, is here at the entrance of Cinecittà <br />
in Rome, Italy, on March 30th 2015.<br />
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Italy instated a special 25% tax credit for film productions in 2010. The industry then lobbied to remove the credit’s cap, and last July, Italy lifted its tax credit limit from €5 million per movie to €10 million per company per year. <br />
 <br />
Cinecittà, a large film studio in Rome, is considered the hub of Italian cinema. The studios were founded in 1937 by Benito Mussolini as part of a scheme to revive the Italian film industry. In the 1950s, the number of international productions being made here led to Rome being dubbed as the "Hollywood on the Tiber". In the 1950s, Cinecittà was the filming location for several large American film productions like Ben-Hur, and then became the studio most closely associated with Federico Fellini.<br />
After a period of near-bankruptcy, the Italian Government privatized Cinecittà in 1997, selling an 80% stake.<br />
<br />
Currently Ben-Hur and Zoolander 2 are booked into Cinecittà Studios.
    CIPG_20150330_NYT-Cinecitta__M3_7571.jpg
  • ROCCA DI PAPA, ITALY - 18 OCTOBER 2022: Gino del Nero (73), a right wing activist, drives his car in Rocca di Papa, Italy, on October 18th 2022.<br />
<br />
Gino del Nero recalls being insulted, sidelined, and silenced by leftists, but also neighbors and co-workers for being a young card-carrying member the MSI (Italian Social Movement), a party formed from the ashes of Benito Mussolini’s fascist party after theSecond World War.  But after Giorgia Meloni, the right wing political leader who came of age in the same party, emerged from last month’s elections as the likely next prime minister of Italy, Mr. Del Nero, felt liberated. “We are freer now”, he said. His loyalty to the right had come at a cost, he said, years of being excluded from workers’ union meetings at the hospital where he worked. Colleagues silenced him in discussions. People often dismissed him as a “fascist.” “It’s a mark we carry inside,” he said. “Now I feel vindicated.”<br />
<br />
Giorgia Meloni said her victory would be a “payback for so many people who in this nation had to lower her head for decades,” but also “for all the people who saw it differently from the mainstream and the dominant power system.” They were, she said, “treated as the children of a lesser God.” As Italy debates why Ms. Meloni did so well in the elections — if it had to do more with Italy’s voracious appetite for something new or a shift to the right — her victory clearly provided a vindication to right wing loyalists who for years endured marginalization.
    CIPG_20221018_NYT-MSI-Meloni-Payback...jpg
  • ROCCA DI PAPA, ITALY - 18 OCTOBER 2022: Gino del Nero (73), a right wing activist, poses for a portrait in Rocca di Papa, Italy, on October 18th 2022.<br />
<br />
Gino del Nero recalls being insulted, sidelined, and silenced by leftists, but also neighbors and co-workers for being a young card-carrying member the MSI (Italian Social Movement), a party formed from the ashes of Benito Mussolini’s fascist party after theSecond World War.  But after Giorgia Meloni, the right wing political leader who came of age in the same party, emerged from last month’s elections as the likely next prime minister of Italy, Mr. Del Nero, felt liberated. “We are freer now”, he said. His loyalty to the right had come at a cost, he said, years of being excluded from workers’ union meetings at the hospital where he worked. Colleagues silenced him in discussions. People often dismissed him as a “fascist.” “It’s a mark we carry inside,” he said. “Now I feel vindicated.”<br />
<br />
Giorgia Meloni said her victory would be a “payback for so many people who in this nation had to lower her head for decades,” but also “for all the people who saw it differently from the mainstream and the dominant power system.” They were, she said, “treated as the children of a lesser God.” As Italy debates why Ms. Meloni did so well in the elections — if it had to do more with Italy’s voracious appetite for something new or a shift to the right — her victory clearly provided a vindication to right wing loyalists who for years endured marginalization.
    CIPG_20221018_NYT-MSI-Meloni-Payback...jpg
  • ROCCA DI PAPA, ITALY - 18 OCTOBER 2022: Gino del Nero (73), a right wing activist, poses for a portrait in Rocca di Papa, Italy, on October 18th 2022.<br />
<br />
Gino del Nero recalls being insulted, sidelined, and silenced by leftists, but also neighbors and co-workers for being a young card-carrying member the MSI (Italian Social Movement), a party formed from the ashes of Benito Mussolini’s fascist party after theSecond World War.  But after Giorgia Meloni, the right wing political leader who came of age in the same party, emerged from last month’s elections as the likely next prime minister of Italy, Mr. Del Nero, felt liberated. “We are freer now”, he said. His loyalty to the right had come at a cost, he said, years of being excluded from workers’ union meetings at the hospital where he worked. Colleagues silenced him in discussions. People often dismissed him as a “fascist.” “It’s a mark we carry inside,” he said. “Now I feel vindicated.”<br />
<br />
Giorgia Meloni said her victory would be a “payback for so many people who in this nation had to lower her head for decades,” but also “for all the people who saw it differently from the mainstream and the dominant power system.” They were, she said, “treated as the children of a lesser God.” As Italy debates why Ms. Meloni did so well in the elections — if it had to do more with Italy’s voracious appetite for something new or a shift to the right — her victory clearly provided a vindication to right wing loyalists who for years endured marginalization.
    CIPG_20221018_NYT-MSI-Meloni-Payback...jpg
  • ROCCA DI PAPA, ITALY - 18 OCTOBER 2022: Gino del Nero (73), a right wing activist, poses for a portrait in Rocca di Papa, Italy, on October 18th 2022.<br />
<br />
Gino del Nero recalls being insulted, sidelined, and silenced by leftists, but also neighbors and co-workers for being a young card-carrying member the MSI (Italian Social Movement), a party formed from the ashes of Benito Mussolini’s fascist party after theSecond World War.  But after Giorgia Meloni, the right wing political leader who came of age in the same party, emerged from last month’s elections as the likely next prime minister of Italy, Mr. Del Nero, felt liberated. “We are freer now”, he said. His loyalty to the right had come at a cost, he said, years of being excluded from workers’ union meetings at the hospital where he worked. Colleagues silenced him in discussions. People often dismissed him as a “fascist.” “It’s a mark we carry inside,” he said. “Now I feel vindicated.”<br />
<br />
Giorgia Meloni said her victory would be a “payback for so many people who in this nation had to lower her head for decades,” but also “for all the people who saw it differently from the mainstream and the dominant power system.” They were, she said, “treated as the children of a lesser God.” As Italy debates why Ms. Meloni did so well in the elections — if it had to do more with Italy’s voracious appetite for something new or a shift to the right — her victory clearly provided a vindication to right wing loyalists who for years endured marginalization.
    CIPG_20221018_NYT-MSI-Meloni-Payback...jpg
  • ROCCA DI PAPA, ITALY - 18 OCTOBER 2022: Gino del Nero (73), a right wing activist, poses for a portrait in Rocca di Papa, Italy, on October 18th 2022.<br />
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Gino del Nero recalls being insulted, sidelined, and silenced by leftists, but also neighbors and co-workers for being a young card-carrying member the MSI (Italian Social Movement), a party formed from the ashes of Benito Mussolini’s fascist party after theSecond World War.  But after Giorgia Meloni, the right wing political leader who came of age in the same party, emerged from last month’s elections as the likely next prime minister of Italy, Mr. Del Nero, felt liberated. “We are freer now”, he said. His loyalty to the right had come at a cost, he said, years of being excluded from workers’ union meetings at the hospital where he worked. Colleagues silenced him in discussions. People often dismissed him as a “fascist.” “It’s a mark we carry inside,” he said. “Now I feel vindicated.”<br />
<br />
Giorgia Meloni said her victory would be a “payback for so many people who in this nation had to lower her head for decades,” but also “for all the people who saw it differently from the mainstream and the dominant power system.” They were, she said, “treated as the children of a lesser God.” As Italy debates why Ms. Meloni did so well in the elections — if it had to do more with Italy’s voracious appetite for something new or a shift to the right — her victory clearly provided a vindication to right wing loyalists who for years endured marginalization.
    CIPG_20221018_NYT-MSI-Meloni-Payback...jpg
  • ROCCA DI PAPA, ITALY - 18 OCTOBER 2022: Gino del Nero (73), a right wing activist, poses for a portrait in Rocca di Papa, Italy, on October 18th 2022.<br />
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Gino del Nero recalls being insulted, sidelined, and silenced by leftists, but also neighbors and co-workers for being a young card-carrying member the MSI (Italian Social Movement), a party formed from the ashes of Benito Mussolini’s fascist party after theSecond World War.  But after Giorgia Meloni, the right wing political leader who came of age in the same party, emerged from last month’s elections as the likely next prime minister of Italy, Mr. Del Nero, felt liberated. “We are freer now”, he said. His loyalty to the right had come at a cost, he said, years of being excluded from workers’ union meetings at the hospital where he worked. Colleagues silenced him in discussions. People often dismissed him as a “fascist.” “It’s a mark we carry inside,” he said. “Now I feel vindicated.”<br />
<br />
Giorgia Meloni said her victory would be a “payback for so many people who in this nation had to lower her head for decades,” but also “for all the people who saw it differently from the mainstream and the dominant power system.” They were, she said, “treated as the children of a lesser God.” As Italy debates why Ms. Meloni did so well in the elections — if it had to do more with Italy’s voracious appetite for something new or a shift to the right — her victory clearly provided a vindication to right wing loyalists who for years endured marginalization.
    CIPG_20221018_NYT-MSI-Meloni-Payback...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 15 JULY 2015: The bedroom of Giovannia Torlonia used by Benito Mussolini during his stay in Villa Torlonia from 1925 to 1943, is here in the Casino Nobile (home to the Villa Torlonia Museum), in Villa Torlonia, Rome, Italy, on July 15th 2015.<br />
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Villa Torlonia is a villa and surrounding gardens formerly belonging to the Torlonia family, a Roman noble family who acquired a huge fortune in the 18th and 19th centuries through administering the finances of the Vatican. In 1925 the Villa was given to Mussolini as a residence, where he remained until 1943, with few changes to the aboveground structures. Between 1942 and 1943 an air-raid shelter was first built in the garden of the villa, and then a much larger and more complex airtight bunker was built under the villa itself, with the intention of resisting both aerial bombardment and chemical warfare.
    CIPG_20150715_NYT-VillaTorlonia__M3_...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 15 JULY 2015: An exhibition space with a World War 2 gas mask and uniform is here by the entrance to the bunker, built between 1942 and 1943 to protect Benito Mussolini and his family, under the Casino Nobile (and Museum of Villa Torlonia) in Villa Torlonia, Rome, Italy, on July 15th 2015.<br />
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Villa Torlonia is a villa and surrounding gardens formerly belonging to the Torlonia family, a Roman noble family who acquired a huge fortune in the 18th and 19th centuries through administering the finances of the Vatican. In 1925 the Villa was given to Mussolini as a residence, where he remained until 1943, with few changes to the aboveground structures. Between 1942 and 1943 an air-raid shelter was first built in the garden of the villa, and then a much larger and more complex airtight bunker was built under the villa itself, with the intention of resisting both aerial bombardment and chemical warfare.
    CIPG_20150715_NYT-VillaTorlonia__M3_...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 15 JULY 2015: The bunker (with a vintage radio donated by the Italian Association of Vintage Radios), built between 1942 and 1943 to protect Benito Mussolini and his family, is here under the Casino Nobile (and Museum of Villa Torlonia) in Villa Torlonia, Rome, Italy, on July 15th 2015.<br />
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Villa Torlonia is a villa and surrounding gardens formerly belonging to the Torlonia family, a Roman noble family who acquired a huge fortune in the 18th and 19th centuries through administering the finances of the Vatican. In 1925 the Villa was given to Mussolini as a residence, where he remained until 1943, with few changes to the aboveground structures. Between 1942 and 1943 an air-raid shelter was first built in the garden of the villa, and then a much larger and more complex airtight bunker was built under the villa itself, with the intention of resisting both aerial bombardment and chemical warfare.
    CIPG_20150715_NYT-VillaTorlonia__M3_...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 30 MARCH 2015: Entrance to Cinecittà, a large film studio considered the hub of Italian cinema, in Rome, Italy, on March 30th 2015.<br />
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Italy instated a special 25% tax credit for film productions in 2010. The industry then lobbied to remove the credit’s cap, and last July, Italy lifted its tax credit limit from €5 million per movie to €10 million per company per year. <br />
 <br />
Cinecittà, a large film studio in Rome, is considered the hub of Italian cinema. The studios were founded in 1937 by Benito Mussolini as part of a scheme to revive the Italian film industry. In the 1950s, the number of international productions being made here led to Rome being dubbed as the "Hollywood on the Tiber". In the 1950s, Cinecittà was the filming location for several large American film productions like Ben-Hur, and then became the studio most closely associated with Federico Fellini.<br />
After a period of near-bankruptcy, the Italian Government privatized Cinecittà in 1997, selling an 80% stake.<br />
<br />
Currently Ben-Hur and Zoolander 2 are booked into Cinecittà Studios.
    CIPG_20150330_NYT-Cinecitta__M3_8353.jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 30 MARCH 2015: The set of "Rome", the British-American-Italian broadcasted between 2005 and 2007 on HBO, BBC Two and RaiDue, is here in Cinecittà in Rome, Italy, on March 30th 2015.<br />
<br />
Italy instated a special 25% tax credit for film productions in 2010. The industry then lobbied to remove the credit’s cap, and last July, Italy lifted its tax credit limit from €5 million per movie to €10 million per company per year. <br />
 <br />
Cinecittà, a large film studio in Rome, is considered the hub of Italian cinema. The studios were founded in 1937 by Benito Mussolini as part of a scheme to revive the Italian film industry. In the 1950s, the number of international productions being made here led to Rome being dubbed as the "Hollywood on the Tiber". In the 1950s, Cinecittà was the filming location for several large American film productions like Ben-Hur, and then became the studio most closely associated with Federico Fellini.<br />
After a period of near-bankruptcy, the Italian Government privatized Cinecittà in 1997, selling an 80% stake.<br />
<br />
Currently Ben-Hur and Zoolander 2 are booked into Cinecittà Studios.
    CIPG_20150330_NYT-Cinecitta__M3_8269.jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 30 MARCH 2015: Giuseppe Basso, CEO of Cinecittà Studios, poses for a portrait in Cinecittà, Rome, Italy, on March 30th 2015.<br />
<br />
Italy instated a special 25% tax credit for film productions in 2010. The industry then lobbied to remove the credit’s cap, and last July, Italy lifted its tax credit limit from €5 million per movie to €10 million per company per year. <br />
 <br />
Cinecittà, a large film studio in Rome, is considered the hub of Italian cinema. The studios were founded in 1937 by Benito Mussolini as part of a scheme to revive the Italian film industry. In the 1950s, the number of international productions being made here led to Rome being dubbed as the "Hollywood on the Tiber". In the 1950s, Cinecittà was the filming location for several large American film productions like Ben-Hur, and then became the studio most closely associated with Federico Fellini.<br />
After a period of near-bankruptcy, the Italian Government privatized Cinecittà in 1997, selling an 80% stake.<br />
<br />
Currently Ben-Hur and Zoolander 2 are booked into Cinecittà Studios.
    CIPG_20150330_NYT-Cinecitta__M3_8234.jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 30 MARCH 2015: Giuseppe Basso, CEO of Cinecittà Studios, poses for a portrait in Cinecittà, Rome, Italy, on March 30th 2015.<br />
<br />
Italy instated a special 25% tax credit for film productions in 2010. The industry then lobbied to remove the credit’s cap, and last July, Italy lifted its tax credit limit from €5 million per movie to €10 million per company per year. <br />
 <br />
Cinecittà, a large film studio in Rome, is considered the hub of Italian cinema. The studios were founded in 1937 by Benito Mussolini as part of a scheme to revive the Italian film industry. In the 1950s, the number of international productions being made here led to Rome being dubbed as the "Hollywood on the Tiber". In the 1950s, Cinecittà was the filming location for several large American film productions like Ben-Hur, and then became the studio most closely associated with Federico Fellini.<br />
After a period of near-bankruptcy, the Italian Government privatized Cinecittà in 1997, selling an 80% stake.<br />
<br />
Currently Ben-Hur and Zoolander 2 are booked into Cinecittà Studios.
    CIPG_20150330_NYT-Cinecitta__M3_8230.jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 30 MARCH 2015: Giuseppe Basso, CEO of Cinecittà Studios, poses for a portrait in Cinecittà, Rome, Italy, on March 30th 2015.<br />
<br />
Italy instated a special 25% tax credit for film productions in 2010. The industry then lobbied to remove the credit’s cap, and last July, Italy lifted its tax credit limit from €5 million per movie to €10 million per company per year. <br />
 <br />
Cinecittà, a large film studio in Rome, is considered the hub of Italian cinema. The studios were founded in 1937 by Benito Mussolini as part of a scheme to revive the Italian film industry. In the 1950s, the number of international productions being made here led to Rome being dubbed as the "Hollywood on the Tiber". In the 1950s, Cinecittà was the filming location for several large American film productions like Ben-Hur, and then became the studio most closely associated with Federico Fellini.<br />
After a period of near-bankruptcy, the Italian Government privatized Cinecittà in 1997, selling an 80% stake.<br />
<br />
Currently Ben-Hur and Zoolander 2 are booked into Cinecittà Studios.
    CIPG_20150330_NYT-Cinecitta__M3_8213.jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 30 MARCH 2015: Giuseppe Basso, CEO of Cinecittà Studios, is here during an interview in Cinecittà, Rome, Italy, on March 30th 2015.<br />
<br />
Italy instated a special 25% tax credit for film productions in 2010. The industry then lobbied to remove the credit’s cap, and last July, Italy lifted its tax credit limit from €5 million per movie to €10 million per company per year. <br />
 <br />
Cinecittà, a large film studio in Rome, is considered the hub of Italian cinema. The studios were founded in 1937 by Benito Mussolini as part of a scheme to revive the Italian film industry. In the 1950s, the number of international productions being made here led to Rome being dubbed as the "Hollywood on the Tiber". In the 1950s, Cinecittà was the filming location for several large American film productions like Ben-Hur, and then became the studio most closely associated with Federico Fellini.<br />
After a period of near-bankruptcy, the Italian Government privatized Cinecittà in 1997, selling an 80% stake.<br />
<br />
Currently Ben-Hur and Zoolander 2 are booked into Cinecittà Studios.
    CIPG_20150330_NYT-Cinecitta__M3_8193.jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 30 MARCH 2015: Giuseppe Basso, CEO of Cinecittà Studios, is here during an interview in Cinecittà, Rome, Italy, on March 30th 2015.<br />
<br />
Italy instated a special 25% tax credit for film productions in 2010. The industry then lobbied to remove the credit’s cap, and last July, Italy lifted its tax credit limit from €5 million per movie to €10 million per company per year. <br />
 <br />
Cinecittà, a large film studio in Rome, is considered the hub of Italian cinema. The studios were founded in 1937 by Benito Mussolini as part of a scheme to revive the Italian film industry. In the 1950s, the number of international productions being made here led to Rome being dubbed as the "Hollywood on the Tiber". In the 1950s, Cinecittà was the filming location for several large American film productions like Ben-Hur, and then became the studio most closely associated with Federico Fellini.<br />
After a period of near-bankruptcy, the Italian Government privatized Cinecittà in 1997, selling an 80% stake.<br />
<br />
Currently Ben-Hur and Zoolander 2 are booked into Cinecittà Studios.
    CIPG_20150330_NYT-Cinecitta__M3_8158.jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 30 MARCH 2015: A direction sign for the production of Ben-Hur, the upcoming American historical epic film directed by Timur Bekmambetov, is taped on a tree in Cinecittà, Rome, Italy, on March 30th 2015.<br />
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Italy instated a special 25% tax credit for film productions in 2010. The industry then lobbied to remove the credit’s cap, and last July, Italy lifted its tax credit limit from €5 million per movie to €10 million per company per year. <br />
 <br />
Cinecittà, a large film studio in Rome, is considered the hub of Italian cinema. The studios were founded in 1937 by Benito Mussolini as part of a scheme to revive the Italian film industry. In the 1950s, the number of international productions being made here led to Rome being dubbed as the "Hollywood on the Tiber". In the 1950s, Cinecittà was the filming location for several large American film productions like Ben-Hur, and then became the studio most closely associated with Federico Fellini.<br />
After a period of near-bankruptcy, the Italian Government privatized Cinecittà in 1997, selling an 80% stake.<br />
<br />
Currently Ben-Hur and Zoolander 2 are booked into Cinecittà Studios.
    CIPG_20150330_NYT-Cinecitta__M3_8058.jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 30 MARCH 2015: Maintenance workers employed at Cinecittà Studios paint a Roman temple of the set of "Rome", the British-American-Italian broadcasted between 2005 and 2007 on HBO, BBC Two and RaiDue, here in Cinecittà, Rome, Italy, on March 30th 2015.<br />
<br />
Italy instated a special 25% tax credit for film productions in 2010. The industry then lobbied to remove the credit’s cap, and last July, Italy lifted its tax credit limit from €5 million per movie to €10 million per company per year. <br />
 <br />
Cinecittà, a large film studio in Rome, is considered the hub of Italian cinema. The studios were founded in 1937 by Benito Mussolini as part of a scheme to revive the Italian film industry. In the 1950s, the number of international productions being made here led to Rome being dubbed as the "Hollywood on the Tiber". In the 1950s, Cinecittà was the filming location for several large American film productions like Ben-Hur, and then became the studio most closely associated with Federico Fellini.<br />
After a period of near-bankruptcy, the Italian Government privatized Cinecittà in 1997, selling an 80% stake.<br />
<br />
Currently Ben-Hur and Zoolander 2 are booked into Cinecittà Studios.
    CIPG_20150330_NYT-Cinecitta__M3_8043.jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 30 MARCH 2015: A maintenance worker employed at Cinecittà Studios paints a Roman temple of the set of "Rome", the British-American-Italian broadcasted between 2005 and 2007 on HBO, BBC Two and RaiDue, here in Cinecittà, Rome, Italy, on March 30th 2015.<br />
<br />
Italy instated a special 25% tax credit for film productions in 2010. The industry then lobbied to remove the credit’s cap, and last July, Italy lifted its tax credit limit from €5 million per movie to €10 million per company per year. <br />
 <br />
Cinecittà, a large film studio in Rome, is considered the hub of Italian cinema. The studios were founded in 1937 by Benito Mussolini as part of a scheme to revive the Italian film industry. In the 1950s, the number of international productions being made here led to Rome being dubbed as the "Hollywood on the Tiber". In the 1950s, Cinecittà was the filming location for several large American film productions like Ben-Hur, and then became the studio most closely associated with Federico Fellini.<br />
After a period of near-bankruptcy, the Italian Government privatized Cinecittà in 1997, selling an 80% stake.<br />
<br />
Currently Ben-Hur and Zoolander 2 are booked into Cinecittà Studios.
    CIPG_20150330_NYT-Cinecitta__M3_7982.jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 30 MARCH 2015: Maintenance workers employed at Cinecittà Studios paint a Roman temple of the set of "Rome", the British-American-Italian broadcasted between 2005 and 2007 on HBO, BBC Two and RaiDue, here in Cinecittà, Rome, Italy, on March 30th 2015.<br />
<br />
Italy instated a special 25% tax credit for film productions in 2010. The industry then lobbied to remove the credit’s cap, and last July, Italy lifted its tax credit limit from €5 million per movie to €10 million per company per year. <br />
 <br />
Cinecittà, a large film studio in Rome, is considered the hub of Italian cinema. The studios were founded in 1937 by Benito Mussolini as part of a scheme to revive the Italian film industry. In the 1950s, the number of international productions being made here led to Rome being dubbed as the "Hollywood on the Tiber". In the 1950s, Cinecittà was the filming location for several large American film productions like Ben-Hur, and then became the studio most closely associated with Federico Fellini.<br />
After a period of near-bankruptcy, the Italian Government privatized Cinecittà in 1997, selling an 80% stake.<br />
<br />
Currently Ben-Hur and Zoolander 2 are booked into Cinecittà Studios.
    CIPG_20150330_NYT-Cinecitta__M3_7972.jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 30 MARCH 2015: Maintenance workers employed at Cinecittà Studios paint a Roman temple of the set of "Rome", the British-American-Italian broadcasted between 2005 and 2007 on HBO, BBC Two and RaiDue, here in Cinecittà, Rome, Italy, on March 30th 2015.<br />
<br />
Italy instated a special 25% tax credit for film productions in 2010. The industry then lobbied to remove the credit’s cap, and last July, Italy lifted its tax credit limit from €5 million per movie to €10 million per company per year. <br />
 <br />
Cinecittà, a large film studio in Rome, is considered the hub of Italian cinema. The studios were founded in 1937 by Benito Mussolini as part of a scheme to revive the Italian film industry. In the 1950s, the number of international productions being made here led to Rome being dubbed as the "Hollywood on the Tiber". In the 1950s, Cinecittà was the filming location for several large American film productions like Ben-Hur, and then became the studio most closely associated with Federico Fellini.<br />
After a period of near-bankruptcy, the Italian Government privatized Cinecittà in 1997, selling an 80% stake.<br />
<br />
Currently Ben-Hur and Zoolander 2 are booked into Cinecittà Studios.
    CIPG_20150330_NYT-Cinecitta__M3_7965.jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 30 MARCH 2015: A maintenance worker employed at Cinecittà Studios paints a Roman temple of the set of "Rome", the British-American-Italian broadcasted between 2005 and 2007 on HBO, BBC Two and RaiDue, here in Cinecittà, Rome, Italy, on March 30th 2015.<br />
<br />
Italy instated a special 25% tax credit for film productions in 2010. The industry then lobbied to remove the credit’s cap, and last July, Italy lifted its tax credit limit from €5 million per movie to €10 million per company per year. <br />
 <br />
Cinecittà, a large film studio in Rome, is considered the hub of Italian cinema. The studios were founded in 1937 by Benito Mussolini as part of a scheme to revive the Italian film industry. In the 1950s, the number of international productions being made here led to Rome being dubbed as the "Hollywood on the Tiber". In the 1950s, Cinecittà was the filming location for several large American film productions like Ben-Hur, and then became the studio most closely associated with Federico Fellini.<br />
After a period of near-bankruptcy, the Italian Government privatized Cinecittà in 1997, selling an 80% stake.<br />
<br />
Currently Ben-Hur and Zoolander 2 are booked into Cinecittà Studios.
    CIPG_20150330_NYT-Cinecitta__M3_7902.jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 30 MARCH 2015: A maintenance worker employed at Cinecittà Studios paints a Roman temple of the set of "Rome", the British-American-Italian broadcasted between 2005 and 2007 on HBO, BBC Two and RaiDue, here in Cinecittà, Rome, Italy, on March 30th 2015.<br />
<br />
Italy instated a special 25% tax credit for film productions in 2010. The industry then lobbied to remove the credit’s cap, and last July, Italy lifted its tax credit limit from €5 million per movie to €10 million per company per year. <br />
 <br />
Cinecittà, a large film studio in Rome, is considered the hub of Italian cinema. The studios were founded in 1937 by Benito Mussolini as part of a scheme to revive the Italian film industry. In the 1950s, the number of international productions being made here led to Rome being dubbed as the "Hollywood on the Tiber". In the 1950s, Cinecittà was the filming location for several large American film productions like Ben-Hur, and then became the studio most closely associated with Federico Fellini.<br />
After a period of near-bankruptcy, the Italian Government privatized Cinecittà in 1997, selling an 80% stake.<br />
<br />
Currently Ben-Hur and Zoolander 2 are booked into Cinecittà Studios.
    CIPG_20150330_NYT-Cinecitta__M3_7858.jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 30 MARCH 2015: Two men rest on the set of "Rome", the British-American-Italian broadcasted between 2005 and 2007 on HBO, BBC Two and RaiDue, is here in Cinecittà in Rome, Italy, on March 30th 2015.<br />
<br />
Italy instated a special 25% tax credit for film productions in 2010. The industry then lobbied to remove the credit’s cap, and last July, Italy lifted its tax credit limit from €5 million per movie to €10 million per company per year. <br />
 <br />
Cinecittà, a large film studio in Rome, is considered the hub of Italian cinema. The studios were founded in 1937 by Benito Mussolini as part of a scheme to revive the Italian film industry. In the 1950s, the number of international productions being made here led to Rome being dubbed as the "Hollywood on the Tiber". In the 1950s, Cinecittà was the filming location for several large American film productions like Ben-Hur, and then became the studio most closely associated with Federico Fellini.<br />
After a period of near-bankruptcy, the Italian Government privatized Cinecittà in 1997, selling an 80% stake.<br />
<br />
Currently Ben-Hur and Zoolander 2 are booked into Cinecittà Studios.
    CIPG_20150330_NYT-Cinecitta__M3_7851.jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 30 MARCH 2015: A portion of the set of "Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt", an upcoming film (2016) by director Cyrus Nowrasteh  based on Anne Rice's 2005 book, is here in Cinecittà  <br />
in Rome, Italy, on March 30th 2015.<br />
<br />
Italy instated a special 25% tax credit for film productions in 2010. The industry then lobbied to remove the credit’s cap, and last July, Italy lifted its tax credit limit from €5 million per movie to €10 million per company per year. <br />
 <br />
Cinecittà, a large film studio in Rome, is considered the hub of Italian cinema. The studios were founded in 1937 by Benito Mussolini as part of a scheme to revive the Italian film industry. In the 1950s, the number of international productions being made here led to Rome being dubbed as the "Hollywood on the Tiber". In the 1950s, Cinecittà was the filming location for several large American film productions like Ben-Hur, and then became the studio most closely associated with Federico Fellini.<br />
After a period of near-bankruptcy, the Italian Government privatized Cinecittà in 1997, selling an 80% stake.<br />
<br />
Currently Ben-Hur and Zoolander 2 are booked into Cinecittà Studios.
    CIPG_20150330_NYT-Cinecitta__M3_7821.jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 30 MARCH 2015: A portion of the set of "Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt", an upcoming film (2016) by director Cyrus Nowrasteh  based on Anne Rice's 2005 book, is here in Cinecittà  <br />
in Rome, Italy, on March 30th 2015.<br />
<br />
Italy instated a special 25% tax credit for film productions in 2010. The industry then lobbied to remove the credit’s cap, and last July, Italy lifted its tax credit limit from €5 million per movie to €10 million per company per year. <br />
 <br />
Cinecittà, a large film studio in Rome, is considered the hub of Italian cinema. The studios were founded in 1937 by Benito Mussolini as part of a scheme to revive the Italian film industry. In the 1950s, the number of international productions being made here led to Rome being dubbed as the "Hollywood on the Tiber". In the 1950s, Cinecittà was the filming location for several large American film productions like Ben-Hur, and then became the studio most closely associated with Federico Fellini.<br />
After a period of near-bankruptcy, the Italian Government privatized Cinecittà in 1997, selling an 80% stake.<br />
<br />
Currently Ben-Hur and Zoolander 2 are booked into Cinecittà Studios.
    CIPG_20150330_NYT-Cinecitta__M3_7799.jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 30 MARCH 2015: A portion of the set of "Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt", an upcoming film (2016) by director Cyrus Nowrasteh  based on Anne Rice's 2005 book, is here in Cinecittà  <br />
in Rome, Italy, on March 30th 2015.<br />
<br />
Italy instated a special 25% tax credit for film productions in 2010. The industry then lobbied to remove the credit’s cap, and last July, Italy lifted its tax credit limit from €5 million per movie to €10 million per company per year. <br />
 <br />
Cinecittà, a large film studio in Rome, is considered the hub of Italian cinema. The studios were founded in 1937 by Benito Mussolini as part of a scheme to revive the Italian film industry. In the 1950s, the number of international productions being made here led to Rome being dubbed as the "Hollywood on the Tiber". In the 1950s, Cinecittà was the filming location for several large American film productions like Ben-Hur, and then became the studio most closely associated with Federico Fellini.<br />
After a period of near-bankruptcy, the Italian Government privatized Cinecittà in 1997, selling an 80% stake.<br />
<br />
Currently Ben-Hur and Zoolander 2 are booked into Cinecittà Studios.
    CIPG_20150330_NYT-Cinecitta__M3_7735.jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 30 MARCH 2015: Props used in previous film productions are stocked outdoors in Cinecittà<br />
in Rome, Italy, on March 30th 2015.<br />
<br />
Italy instated a special 25% tax credit for film productions in 2010. The industry then lobbied to remove the credit’s cap, and last July, Italy lifted its tax credit limit from €5 million per movie to €10 million per company per year. <br />
 <br />
Cinecittà, a large film studio in Rome, is considered the hub of Italian cinema. The studios were founded in 1937 by Benito Mussolini as part of a scheme to revive the Italian film industry. In the 1950s, the number of international productions being made here led to Rome being dubbed as the "Hollywood on the Tiber". In the 1950s, Cinecittà was the filming location for several large American film productions like Ben-Hur, and then became the studio most closely associated with Federico Fellini.<br />
After a period of near-bankruptcy, the Italian Government privatized Cinecittà in 1997, selling an 80% stake.<br />
<br />
Currently Ben-Hur and Zoolander 2 are booked into Cinecittà Studios.
    CIPG_20150330_NYT-Cinecitta__M3_7699.jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 30 MARCH 2015: Props used in previous film productions are stocked outdoors in Cinecittà<br />
in Rome, Italy, on March 30th 2015.<br />
<br />
Italy instated a special 25% tax credit for film productions in 2010. The industry then lobbied to remove the credit’s cap, and last July, Italy lifted its tax credit limit from €5 million per movie to €10 million per company per year. <br />
 <br />
Cinecittà, a large film studio in Rome, is considered the hub of Italian cinema. The studios were founded in 1937 by Benito Mussolini as part of a scheme to revive the Italian film industry. In the 1950s, the number of international productions being made here led to Rome being dubbed as the "Hollywood on the Tiber". In the 1950s, Cinecittà was the filming location for several large American film productions like Ben-Hur, and then became the studio most closely associated with Federico Fellini.<br />
After a period of near-bankruptcy, the Italian Government privatized Cinecittà in 1997, selling an 80% stake.<br />
<br />
Currently Ben-Hur and Zoolander 2 are booked into Cinecittà Studios.
    CIPG_20150330_NYT-Cinecitta__M3_7650.jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 30 MARCH 2015: Props used in previous film productions are stocked outdoors in Cinecittà<br />
in Rome, Italy, on March 30th 2015.<br />
<br />
Italy instated a special 25% tax credit for film productions in 2010. The industry then lobbied to remove the credit’s cap, and last July, Italy lifted its tax credit limit from €5 million per movie to €10 million per company per year. <br />
 <br />
Cinecittà, a large film studio in Rome, is considered the hub of Italian cinema. The studios were founded in 1937 by Benito Mussolini as part of a scheme to revive the Italian film industry. In the 1950s, the number of international productions being made here led to Rome being dubbed as the "Hollywood on the Tiber". In the 1950s, Cinecittà was the filming location for several large American film productions like Ben-Hur, and then became the studio most closely associated with Federico Fellini.<br />
After a period of near-bankruptcy, the Italian Government privatized Cinecittà in 1997, selling an 80% stake.<br />
<br />
Currently Ben-Hur and Zoolander 2 are booked into Cinecittà Studios.
    CIPG_20150330_NYT-Cinecitta__M3_7624.jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 30 MARCH 2015: A catapult used for a scene of Ben-Hur, the upcoming American historical epic film directed by Timur Bekmambetov, is here by the Studio 13 of Cinecittà   <br />
in Rome, Italy, on March 30th 2015.<br />
<br />
Italy instated a special 25% tax credit for film productions in 2010. The industry then lobbied to remove the credit’s cap, and last July, Italy lifted its tax credit limit from €5 million per movie to €10 million per company per year. <br />
 <br />
Cinecittà, a large film studio in Rome, is considered the hub of Italian cinema. The studios were founded in 1937 by Benito Mussolini as part of a scheme to revive the Italian film industry. In the 1950s, the number of international productions being made here led to Rome being dubbed as the "Hollywood on the Tiber". In the 1950s, Cinecittà was the filming location for several large American film productions like Ben-Hur, and then became the studio most closely associated with Federico Fellini.<br />
After a period of near-bankruptcy, the Italian Government privatized Cinecittà in 1997, selling an 80% stake.<br />
<br />
Currently Ben-Hur and Zoolander 2 are booked into Cinecittà Studios.
    CIPG_20150330_NYT-Cinecitta__M3_7605.jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 30 MARCH 2015: A "silence" sign above the entrance door of the Teatro 1 (Studio 1) in Cinecittà<br />
in Rome, Italy, on March 30th 2015.<br />
<br />
Italy instated a special 25% tax credit for film productions in 2010. The industry then lobbied to remove the credit’s cap, and last July, Italy lifted its tax credit limit from €5 million per movie to €10 million per company per year. <br />
 <br />
Cinecittà, a large film studio in Rome, is considered the hub of Italian cinema. The studios were founded in 1937 by Benito Mussolini as part of a scheme to revive the Italian film industry. In the 1950s, the number of international productions being made here led to Rome being dubbed as the "Hollywood on the Tiber". In the 1950s, Cinecittà was the filming location for several large American film productions like Ben-Hur, and then became the studio most closely associated with Federico Fellini.<br />
After a period of near-bankruptcy, the Italian Government privatized Cinecittà in 1997, selling an 80% stake.<br />
<br />
Currently Ben-Hur and Zoolander 2 are booked into Cinecittà Studios.
    CIPG_20150330_NYT-Cinecitta__M3_7578.jpg
  • ROCCA DI PAPA, ITALY - 18 OCTOBER 2022: Gino del Nero (73), a right wing activist, poses for a portrait in Rocca di Papa, Italy, on October 18th 2022.<br />
<br />
Gino del Nero recalls being insulted, sidelined, and silenced by leftists, but also neighbors and co-workers for being a young card-carrying member the MSI (Italian Social Movement), a party formed from the ashes of Benito Mussolini’s fascist party after theSecond World War.  But after Giorgia Meloni, the right wing political leader who came of age in the same party, emerged from last month’s elections as the likely next prime minister of Italy, Mr. Del Nero, felt liberated. “We are freer now”, he said. His loyalty to the right had come at a cost, he said, years of being excluded from workers’ union meetings at the hospital where he worked. Colleagues silenced him in discussions. People often dismissed him as a “fascist.” “It’s a mark we carry inside,” he said. “Now I feel vindicated.”<br />
<br />
Giorgia Meloni said her victory would be a “payback for so many people who in this nation had to lower her head for decades,” but also “for all the people who saw it differently from the mainstream and the dominant power system.” They were, she said, “treated as the children of a lesser God.” As Italy debates why Ms. Meloni did so well in the elections — if it had to do more with Italy’s voracious appetite for something new or a shift to the right — her victory clearly provided a vindication to right wing loyalists who for years endured marginalization.
    CIPG_20221018_NYT-MSI-Meloni-Payback...jpg
  • ROCCA DI PAPA, ITALY - 18 OCTOBER 2022: Gino del Nero (73), a right wing activist, poses for a portrait in Rocca di Papa, Italy, on October 18th 2022.<br />
<br />
Gino del Nero recalls being insulted, sidelined, and silenced by leftists, but also neighbors and co-workers for being a young card-carrying member the MSI (Italian Social Movement), a party formed from the ashes of Benito Mussolini’s fascist party after theSecond World War.  But after Giorgia Meloni, the right wing political leader who came of age in the same party, emerged from last month’s elections as the likely next prime minister of Italy, Mr. Del Nero, felt liberated. “We are freer now”, he said. His loyalty to the right had come at a cost, he said, years of being excluded from workers’ union meetings at the hospital where he worked. Colleagues silenced him in discussions. People often dismissed him as a “fascist.” “It’s a mark we carry inside,” he said. “Now I feel vindicated.”<br />
<br />
Giorgia Meloni said her victory would be a “payback for so many people who in this nation had to lower her head for decades,” but also “for all the people who saw it differently from the mainstream and the dominant power system.” They were, she said, “treated as the children of a lesser God.” As Italy debates why Ms. Meloni did so well in the elections — if it had to do more with Italy’s voracious appetite for something new or a shift to the right — her victory clearly provided a vindication to right wing loyalists who for years endured marginalization.
    CIPG_20221018_NYT-MSI-Meloni-Payback...jpg
  • ROCCA DI PAPA, ITALY - 18 OCTOBER 2022: Gino del Nero (73), a right wing activist, looks at the view of the Roman countryside from the hilltop village in Rocca di Papa, Italy, on October 18th 2022.<br />
<br />
Gino del Nero recalls being insulted, sidelined, and silenced by leftists, but also neighbors and co-workers for being a young card-carrying member the MSI (Italian Social Movement), a party formed from the ashes of Benito Mussolini’s fascist party after theSecond World War.  But after Giorgia Meloni, the right wing political leader who came of age in the same party, emerged from last month’s elections as the likely next prime minister of Italy, Mr. Del Nero, felt liberated. “We are freer now”, he said. His loyalty to the right had come at a cost, he said, years of being excluded from workers’ union meetings at the hospital where he worked. Colleagues silenced him in discussions. People often dismissed him as a “fascist.” “It’s a mark we carry inside,” he said. “Now I feel vindicated.”<br />
<br />
Giorgia Meloni said her victory would be a “payback for so many people who in this nation had to lower her head for decades,” but also “for all the people who saw it differently from the mainstream and the dominant power system.” They were, she said, “treated as the children of a lesser God.” As Italy debates why Ms. Meloni did so well in the elections — if it had to do more with Italy’s voracious appetite for something new or a shift to the right — her victory clearly provided a vindication to right wing loyalists who for years endured marginalization.
    CIPG_20221018_NYT-MSI-Meloni-Payback...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 30 MARCH 2015: Entrance to Cinecittà, a large film studio considered the hub of Italian cinema, in Rome, Italy, on March 30th 2015.<br />
<br />
Italy instated a special 25% tax credit for film productions in 2010. The industry then lobbied to remove the credit’s cap, and last July, Italy lifted its tax credit limit from €5 million per movie to €10 million per company per year. <br />
 <br />
Cinecittà, a large film studio in Rome, is considered the hub of Italian cinema. The studios were founded in 1937 by Benito Mussolini as part of a scheme to revive the Italian film industry. In the 1950s, the number of international productions being made here led to Rome being dubbed as the "Hollywood on the Tiber". In the 1950s, Cinecittà was the filming location for several large American film productions like Ben-Hur, and then became the studio most closely associated with Federico Fellini.<br />
After a period of near-bankruptcy, the Italian Government privatized Cinecittà in 1997, selling an 80% stake.<br />
<br />
Currently Ben-Hur and Zoolander 2 are booked into Cinecittà Studios.
    CIPG_20150330_NYT-Cinecitta__M3_8424.jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 30 MARCH 2015: Studio 5, Italian film director Federico Fellini's favorite, in Cinecittà, Rome, Italy, on March 30th 2015.<br />
<br />
Italy instated a special 25% tax credit for film productions in 2010. The industry then lobbied to remove the credit’s cap, and last July, Italy lifted its tax credit limit from €5 million per movie to €10 million per company per year. <br />
 <br />
Cinecittà, a large film studio in Rome, is considered the hub of Italian cinema. The studios were founded in 1937 by Benito Mussolini as part of a scheme to revive the Italian film industry. In the 1950s, the number of international productions being made here led to Rome being dubbed as the "Hollywood on the Tiber". In the 1950s, Cinecittà was the filming location for several large American film productions like Ben-Hur, and then became the studio most closely associated with Federico Fellini.<br />
After a period of near-bankruptcy, the Italian Government privatized Cinecittà in 1997, selling an 80% stake.<br />
<br />
Currently Ben-Hur and Zoolander 2 are booked into Cinecittà Studios.
    CIPG_20150330_NYT-Cinecitta__M3_8315.jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 30 MARCH 2015: Studio 5, Italian film director Federico Fellini's favorite, in Cinecittà, Rome, Italy, on March 30th 2015.<br />
<br />
Italy instated a special 25% tax credit for film productions in 2010. The industry then lobbied to remove the credit’s cap, and last July, Italy lifted its tax credit limit from €5 million per movie to €10 million per company per year. <br />
 <br />
Cinecittà, a large film studio in Rome, is considered the hub of Italian cinema. The studios were founded in 1937 by Benito Mussolini as part of a scheme to revive the Italian film industry. In the 1950s, the number of international productions being made here led to Rome being dubbed as the "Hollywood on the Tiber". In the 1950s, Cinecittà was the filming location for several large American film productions like Ben-Hur, and then became the studio most closely associated with Federico Fellini.<br />
After a period of near-bankruptcy, the Italian Government privatized Cinecittà in 1997, selling an 80% stake.<br />
<br />
Currently Ben-Hur and Zoolander 2 are booked into Cinecittà Studios.
    CIPG_20150330_NYT-Cinecitta__M3_8298.jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 30 MARCH 2015: Giuseppe Basso, CEO of Cinecittà Studios, is here during an interview in Cinecittà, Rome, Italy, on March 30th 2015.<br />
<br />
Italy instated a special 25% tax credit for film productions in 2010. The industry then lobbied to remove the credit’s cap, and last July, Italy lifted its tax credit limit from €5 million per movie to €10 million per company per year. <br />
 <br />
Cinecittà, a large film studio in Rome, is considered the hub of Italian cinema. The studios were founded in 1937 by Benito Mussolini as part of a scheme to revive the Italian film industry. In the 1950s, the number of international productions being made here led to Rome being dubbed as the "Hollywood on the Tiber". In the 1950s, Cinecittà was the filming location for several large American film productions like Ben-Hur, and then became the studio most closely associated with Federico Fellini.<br />
After a period of near-bankruptcy, the Italian Government privatized Cinecittà in 1997, selling an 80% stake.<br />
<br />
Currently Ben-Hur and Zoolander 2 are booked into Cinecittà Studios.
    CIPG_20150330_NYT-Cinecitta__M3_8199.jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 30 MARCH 2015: The entrance to the equipment storage of Cinecittà Studios is here in Cinecittà, Rome, Italy, on March 30th 2015.<br />
<br />
Italy instated a special 25% tax credit for film productions in 2010. The industry then lobbied to remove the credit’s cap, and last July, Italy lifted its tax credit limit from €5 million per movie to €10 million per company per year. <br />
 <br />
Cinecittà, a large film studio in Rome, is considered the hub of Italian cinema. The studios were founded in 1937 by Benito Mussolini as part of a scheme to revive the Italian film industry. In the 1950s, the number of international productions being made here led to Rome being dubbed as the "Hollywood on the Tiber". In the 1950s, Cinecittà was the filming location for several large American film productions like Ben-Hur, and then became the studio most closely associated with Federico Fellini.<br />
After a period of near-bankruptcy, the Italian Government privatized Cinecittà in 1997, selling an 80% stake.<br />
<br />
Currently Ben-Hur and Zoolander 2 are booked into Cinecittà Studios.
    CIPG_20150330_NYT-Cinecitta__M3_8050.jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 30 MARCH 2015:<br />
in Rome, Italy, on March 30th 2015.<br />
<br />
Italy instated a special 25% tax credit for film productions in 2010. The industry then lobbied to remove the credit’s cap, and last July, Italy lifted its tax credit limit from €5 million per movie to €10 million per company per year. <br />
 <br />
Cinecittà, a large film studio in Rome, is considered the hub of Italian cinema. The studios were founded in 1937 by Benito Mussolini as part of a scheme to revive the Italian film industry. In the 1950s, the number of international productions being made here led to Rome being dubbed as the "Hollywood on the Tiber". In the 1950s, Cinecittà was the filming location for several large American film productions like Ben-Hur, and then became the studio most closely associated with Federico Fellini.<br />
After a period of near-bankruptcy, the Italian Government privatized Cinecittà in 1997, selling an 80% stake.<br />
<br />
Currently Ben-Hur and Zoolander 2 are booked into Cinecittà Studios.
    CIPG_20150330_NYT-Cinecitta__M3_8004.jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 30 MARCH 2015: A maintenance worker employed at Cinecittà Studios paints a Roman temple of the set of "Rome", the British-American-Italian broadcasted between 2005 and 2007 on HBO, BBC Two and RaiDue, here in Cinecittà, Rome, Italy, on March 30th 2015.<br />
<br />
Italy instated a special 25% tax credit for film productions in 2010. The industry then lobbied to remove the credit’s cap, and last July, Italy lifted its tax credit limit from €5 million per movie to €10 million per company per year. <br />
 <br />
Cinecittà, a large film studio in Rome, is considered the hub of Italian cinema. The studios were founded in 1937 by Benito Mussolini as part of a scheme to revive the Italian film industry. In the 1950s, the number of international productions being made here led to Rome being dubbed as the "Hollywood on the Tiber". In the 1950s, Cinecittà was the filming location for several large American film productions like Ben-Hur, and then became the studio most closely associated with Federico Fellini.<br />
After a period of near-bankruptcy, the Italian Government privatized Cinecittà in 1997, selling an 80% stake.<br />
<br />
Currently Ben-Hur and Zoolander 2 are booked into Cinecittà Studios.
    CIPG_20150330_NYT-Cinecitta__M3_7998.jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 30 MARCH 2015: The set of "Rome", the British-American-Italian broadcasted between 2005 and 2007 on HBO, BBC Two and RaiDue, is here in Cinecittà in Rome, Italy, on March 30th 2015.<br />
<br />
Italy instated a special 25% tax credit for film productions in 2010. The industry then lobbied to remove the credit’s cap, and last July, Italy lifted its tax credit limit from €5 million per movie to €10 million per company per year. <br />
 <br />
Cinecittà, a large film studio in Rome, is considered the hub of Italian cinema. The studios were founded in 1937 by Benito Mussolini as part of a scheme to revive the Italian film industry. In the 1950s, the number of international productions being made here led to Rome being dubbed as the "Hollywood on the Tiber". In the 1950s, Cinecittà was the filming location for several large American film productions like Ben-Hur, and then became the studio most closely associated with Federico Fellini.<br />
After a period of near-bankruptcy, the Italian Government privatized Cinecittà in 1997, selling an 80% stake.<br />
<br />
Currently Ben-Hur and Zoolander 2 are booked into Cinecittà Studios.
    CIPG_20150330_NYT-Cinecitta__M3_7925.jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 30 MARCH 2015: Maintenance workers employed at Cinecittà Studios paint a Roman temple of the set of "Rome", the British-American-Italian broadcasted between 2005 and 2007 on HBO, BBC Two and RaiDue, here in Cinecittà, Rome, Italy, on March 30th 2015.<br />
<br />
Italy instated a special 25% tax credit for film productions in 2010. The industry then lobbied to remove the credit’s cap, and last July, Italy lifted its tax credit limit from €5 million per movie to €10 million per company per year. <br />
 <br />
Cinecittà, a large film studio in Rome, is considered the hub of Italian cinema. The studios were founded in 1937 by Benito Mussolini as part of a scheme to revive the Italian film industry. In the 1950s, the number of international productions being made here led to Rome being dubbed as the "Hollywood on the Tiber". In the 1950s, Cinecittà was the filming location for several large American film productions like Ben-Hur, and then became the studio most closely associated with Federico Fellini.<br />
After a period of near-bankruptcy, the Italian Government privatized Cinecittà in 1997, selling an 80% stake.<br />
<br />
Currently Ben-Hur and Zoolander 2 are booked into Cinecittà Studios.
    CIPG_20150330_NYT-Cinecitta__M3_7882.jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 30 MARCH 2015: A portion of the film set of "Francesco", a 2005 mini TV series on the life of Sain Francis of Assisi, here in Cinecittà in Rome, Italy, on March 30th 2015.<br />
<br />
Italy instated a special 25% tax credit for film productions in 2010. The industry then lobbied to remove the credit’s cap, and last July, Italy lifted its tax credit limit from €5 million per movie to €10 million per company per year. <br />
 <br />
Cinecittà, a large film studio in Rome, is considered the hub of Italian cinema. The studios were founded in 1937 by Benito Mussolini as part of a scheme to revive the Italian film industry. In the 1950s, the number of international productions being made here led to Rome being dubbed as the "Hollywood on the Tiber". In the 1950s, Cinecittà was the filming location for several large American film productions like Ben-Hur, and then became the studio most closely associated with Federico Fellini.<br />
After a period of near-bankruptcy, the Italian Government privatized Cinecittà in 1997, selling an 80% stake.<br />
<br />
Currently Ben-Hur and Zoolander 2 are booked into Cinecittà Studios.
    CIPG_20150330_NYT-Cinecitta__M3_7754.jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 30 MARCH 2015: Props used in previous film productions are stocked outdoors in Cinecittà<br />
in Rome, Italy, on March 30th 2015.<br />
<br />
Italy instated a special 25% tax credit for film productions in 2010. The industry then lobbied to remove the credit’s cap, and last July, Italy lifted its tax credit limit from €5 million per movie to €10 million per company per year. <br />
 <br />
Cinecittà, a large film studio in Rome, is considered the hub of Italian cinema. The studios were founded in 1937 by Benito Mussolini as part of a scheme to revive the Italian film industry. In the 1950s, the number of international productions being made here led to Rome being dubbed as the "Hollywood on the Tiber". In the 1950s, Cinecittà was the filming location for several large American film productions like Ben-Hur, and then became the studio most closely associated with Federico Fellini.<br />
After a period of near-bankruptcy, the Italian Government privatized Cinecittà in 1997, selling an 80% stake.<br />
<br />
Currently Ben-Hur and Zoolander 2 are booked into Cinecittà Studios.
    CIPG_20150330_NYT-Cinecitta__M3_7654.jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 30 MARCH 2015: A "silence" sign above the entrance door of the Teatro 1 (Studio 1) of Cinecittà<br />
in Rome, Italy, on March 30th 2015.<br />
<br />
Italy instated a special 25% tax credit for film productions in 2010. The industry then lobbied to remove the credit’s cap, and last July, Italy lifted its tax credit limit from €5 million per movie to €10 million per company per year. <br />
 <br />
Cinecittà, a large film studio in Rome, is considered the hub of Italian cinema. The studios were founded in 1937 by Benito Mussolini as part of a scheme to revive the Italian film industry. In the 1950s, the number of international productions being made here led to Rome being dubbed as the "Hollywood on the Tiber". In the 1950s, Cinecittà was the filming location for several large American film productions like Ben-Hur, and then became the studio most closely associated with Federico Fellini.<br />
After a period of near-bankruptcy, the Italian Government privatized Cinecittà in 1997, selling an 80% stake.<br />
<br />
Currently Ben-Hur and Zoolander 2 are booked into Cinecittà Studios.
    CIPG_20150330_NYT-Cinecitta__M3_7583.jpg