March on Rome (Italian: La marcia su Roma è un film del 1962 diretto da Dino Risi.) is a 1962 comedy film by Dino Risi with Vittorio Gassman and Ugo Tognazzi, aimed at describing the March on Rome of Benito Mussolini's blackshirts from the point of view of two newly recruited, naïve blackshirts.
The movie's main theme is the gradual betrayal of all the promises of the National Fascist Party: the two gradually tick all the main points of the fascist program as described on a propaganda flyer every time they are contradicted by practice. In its early stages fascism was a radical republican movement, suspicious of large businesses, nobility and the Catholic Church (Mussolini himself had been a socialist earlier in his career, being cast out of the Italian Socialist Party when his nationalism grew more and more pronounced). When arriving in Rome, and having ticked them all off, they leave the fascist party in the moment of its victory.
1919년 3월에 결성된 B.무솔리니의 ‘검은셔츠단’은 전후의 경제파탄에서 비롯된 혼란을 틈타 의회에 35석의 의석을 확보하는 등 급격히 성장하여, 1922년 10월 중순부터 무솔리니는 ‘검은셔츠단의 로마 진군에 의한 정권탈취’를 공공연히 예고하였다.
10월 28일 ‘검은셔츠단’ 5,000명은 네 방향에서 로마로 진입, 31일 무솔리니는 권력장악을 선언하고 ‘검은셔츠단을 정규화한다’고 발표함으로써 쿠데타는 성공하여 파시스트 정권이 성립하는 직접적인 계기가 되었다.
