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| Title: | Canadian Duce
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| Series: | (Drama Series 26) |
| Author: | Bruno Ramirez |
| ISBN: | 1550712578 : 9781550712575 |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Size: | 125x200mm |
| Pages: | 156 |
| Weight: | .188 Kg. |
| Published: | Guernica Editions - December 2006 |
| List Price: | 10.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | Film & television screenplays: Canada |
In June 1940, as the dictator Benito Mussolini took Italy into war against the Allied Powers, the Canadian authorities launched a series of raids against Italian-Canadians from coast to coast. Suspected of being a danger to national security, several hundreds of them were arrested and interned without trial. Most of the Italian-Canadian population was declared 'enemy alien,' community centres were shut, and a multitude of families thrown into hardship and despair. The Canadian Duce narrates this little-known chapter of Canadian history through the experience of a Montreal Italian-Canadian family -- the Caruso's -- and through the coming of age of their teen-aged son Mario. This is the script of the CBC TV film Il duce canadese, which aired in 2005.
