Based on the sketches made by Corrado Guzzanti as part of the TV program Il caso Scafroglia (2002), this movie is an uchronia, a “satirical exercise” in historical scifi-revisionism, filmed as a pseudo-documentary and parodying the style of the Istituto Luce newsreels during the Italian Fascism regime.

[2] Originating in 2002 as a comic strip within the Rai 3 television program, Il caso Scafroglia, the following year Fascisti su Marte became a 45 minutes featurette, being screened in this form in the New Territories section at the 60th Venice International Film Festival.

Food, however, is scarce, and the lack of supplies, coupled with the accidental destruction of the spaceship with a balloon shot, leads the underlings to mutiny against the commander during a meteor shower mistaken for an attack by partisan mimics.

The adventurous journey of these men soon falls into oblivion due to the events of World War II, and at the end of the conflict no one has any interest in remembering this work of conquest; only fifty-eight years later, in 1996, during the Mars Pathfinder mission, the Sojourner rover discovers what remains of Barbagli's skeleton.

[3] The film features unreleased parts that fit, from the beginning, between scenes already shot; these include the addition of the “regime cartoon” Il silicio sanctionista, Istituto Luce-style theme songs and a finale in which Caterina Guzzanti and Irene Ferri also appear.