We The Living Movie, Australian Premiere -- Conversation With Duncan Scott | Yaron Brook Show

We The Living Movie, Australian Premiere -- Conversation With Duncan Scott | Yaron Brook Show (Season 12, Episode 171) Watch now: https://youtube.com/live/b-dYmWFMf2c Mussolini banned this movie. Goebbels demanded it be pulled. Eighty-four years later, major distributors still won't touch it. Why does Ayn Rand's We the Living still scare people? Mussolini ordered every copy destroyed. Its producers hid the negatives in a basement and sent a different film to be burned in its place. Ayn Rand then refused to let anyone see it for decades. This is the incredible true story of We the Living. Yaron Brook calls it the best movie ever made from an Ayn Rand novel. In this episode he talks with four-time Emmy winner Duncan Scott, who sat alone with Ayn Rand in a dark editing room and re-cut the film reel by reel to her exact instructions. Fascist Italy took Rand's first novel in 1942 without her knowledge. Officials expected anti-Soviet propaganda. Instead, Italians saw their own lives on screen, with the shortages, the fear, and the missing freedom. The film became Italy's #1 box-office hit, and then it vanished. One of its stars joined the anti-fascist underground and hid American soldiers in Rome. Lawyers Hank and Erika Holzer spent two years hunting through Italy for the lost negatives. Now the film has been digitally restored, frame by frame, and it is touring the world, including a screening in Kyiv during an air raid. The restored film is coming to Australia for the first time, with premieres in Melbourne, Canberra, Sydney and Brisbane in February and March 2027. Duncan Scott will be there in person. Yaron and Duncan explain why a 1942 film about three young people crushed by a dictatorship speaks to today more loudly than ever. About Duncan Scott: Duncan Scott is a film and television director and producer. He has more than 150 productions to his credit and four Emmy® Awards. He has worked with Woody Allen, Margaret Mead, Eric Clapton and Michael Caine. Much of his career has gone into projects that promote freedom. He worked with Ayn Rand to restore We the Living. He consulted on the Atlas Shrugged film series and on a stage adaptation of Anthem. He directs the Objectivist History Project, a nonprofit that is building a video history of the early Objectivist movement. Duncan is a member of the Directors Guild of America, the Writers Guild of America, the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, and the Creative Council of The Moving Picture Institute. 🎬 Info and streaming: wethelivingmovie.com 🇦🇺 Australian premiere details: Australian Centre for Objectivism Timestamps:  00:20 Why this is the best Ayn Rand movie ever made  04:22 Why this film hits harder in 2026 than in 1942  08:17 How Fascist Italy stole Ayn Rand's novel  11:17 Mussolini's son helped green-light it  12:47 Editors hid dangerous scenes from the censors  13:39 The star who joined the underground and saved American soldiers  15:08 Italy's first epic and the #1 film of 1942  16:38 Goebbels watches it and orders, "You cannot show this film"  19:35 Ayn Rand sees the film for the first time  20:19 The director who threw out the script and filmed straight from the book  28:19 How a cold letter got Duncan the job of a lifetime  34:18 Rand's cut: the subplots go, the three leads stay  40:46 Where to stream or download it now  46:46 New subtitles that are faithful to Rand's own words  48:16 The artistry: the lighting, the direction, and Renzo Rossellini's score  50:18 The story: Kira, Leo, Andrei, and a deadly love triangle  51:47 Rand drew it from her own life in Soviet Russia Live audience questions:  52:30 Why did Criterion and Kino Lorber turn it down?  53:00 Do 90% of buyers really download instead of stream?  53:40 Will the score be released as a soundtrack?  54:35 Is We the Living the best entry point to Ayn Rand?  #aynrand #wetheliving #movies #IndividualRights #InstituteForJustice #FreeSpeech #capitalism #Objectivism The Yaron Brook Show is Sponsored by  [The Ayn Rand Institute](https://www.aynrand.org/starthere) [Energy Talking Points, featuring AlexAI, by Alex Epstein](https://alexepstein.substack.com/) [Express VPN](https://www.expressvpn.com/yaron) [Hendershott Wealth Management](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4lfC...) & (https://hendershottwealth.com/ybs/) [Michael Williams & The Defenders of Capitalism Project](https://www.DefendersOfCapitalism.com) [Support the Show]( / yaronbrookshow ) [Sponsor the Show]([email protected]/) [One-time donation](https://bit.ly/2RZOyJJ) Join the [Yaron Brook Show YouTube channel]( / @yaronbrook ) Like what you hear? 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