Violet Gibson, the Irish Woman Who Shot Mussolini

Barrie Dowdall
2020-03-03

6
90 min

The true and forgotten story of Violet Gibson, daughter of the Lord Chancellor to Ireland, who shot fascist dictator Benito Mussolini at point-blank range as she faced a Fascist mob in Rome in 1926. The film looks at how she almost changed the course of history and the enormous personal price she paid.