Twenty years of mutual and insane love passion. For Mussolini Margherita was his shadow, his ghost, the pen of his speeches. She sacrificed her life for him. She was the Duce's other wife. She was Jewish.

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Margherita Sarfatti, Mussolini's companion and very influential with him, remains a woman almost forgotten in the Duce's environment. Born in 1880 in a 15th century palace, on the edge of the former Venice Ghetto, she spent the rest of her youth in Palazzo Bembo, on the Grand Canal. Her father wanted the best teachers for his daughter.

This did not prevent her from becoming a convinced socialist activist, then one of the most listened to members of the party, while being an avantgarde feminist! His salon, in Milan and then in Rome, attracted the biggest names among Italian and foreign composers, writers and artists. She loved collecting “precious people.” In 1923, she had the first Novecento exhibition inaugurated by her lover Benito Mussolini.

"Marguerita S, the woman who invented Mussolini"
Director: PierreHenry Salfati
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