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company, and was close to the regime of the dictator

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. He owned the Palazzo Tittoni where Mussolini lived from 1923 to 1929.

Film industry

Fassini was connected with the Italian production company

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during the 1910s. In 1919 he was the driving force behind the creation of

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(UCI), a conglomerate of leading studios which became the largest producer in the country and aimed to compete with major international companies, particularly those in

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. In 1921 UCI was badly damaged by the collapse of the Banca Italiana di Sconto, which had been a major investor. By this time Fassini had left to join the board of an American shipping company.Moliterno p.320

References

Bibliography

* Moliterno, Gino. ''Historical Dictionary of Italian Cinema''. Scarecrow Press, 2008. * Margherita Sarfatti & Brian Sullivan. ''My Fault: Mussolini As I Knew Him''. Enigma Books, 2013. 1875 births 1942 deaths Italian film producers People from the Province of Asti 20th-century Italian businesspeople People from Moncalvo {{Italy-film-bio-stub