Vincere (2009) on Netflix

Plot summary

Ida Dalser is a well-off beauty salon owner in Italy. She first sees Benito Mussolini when he gives a speech as a young journalist and socialist, and she falls in love with him. The two begin an affair. When Mussolini reverses his opposition to Italian involvement in the Great War, he is expelled from the Italian Socialist Party and develops a new political philosophy that will become Fascism. He decides to start a newspaper, and Dalser sells her belongings to finance it. Their son, Benito Albino, is born. Mussolini goes to the front, and for a long time Dalser hears nothing from him.