[Here's a little known incredible film that when initially released in Europe did not play much or at all in the USA or Soviet Union - the powers that be of those two countries didn't like it. The movie did quite well in Europe. It is now available on DVD world wide - the full 300 plus minute original version. In the DVD's extras - comments by the Director/Writer Bernardo Bertolucci are well worth watching.
A look at rural Italy (not unlike Europe and other parts of the world) where most rural areas had their own variations of language and ways of living before excessive consumerism, world war and other corruptions were forced on the world.]
(Other films from Bertolucci: * Il conformista (The Conformist, 1970), Ultimo tango a Parigi (Last Tango in Paris, 1973), La Luna (Luna, 1979), L'ultimo imperatore (The Last Emperor, 1987), The Sheltering Sky (1990), Little Buddha (1993))
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Movies: 1900
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Bernardo Bertolucci's massive epic, a history of Italy from 1900 to 1945 as reflected through the friendship of two men across class lines, is one of the most fascinating, if little seen, of his films.
After beginning with Robert De Niro as wealthy landowner Alfredo, and Gérard Depardieu as labor leader Olmo, the film returns to 1901 with the death of composer Giuseppe Verdi and the birth of the two friends. The opposing class interests of their grandfathers, padrone Alfredo Berlinghieri (Burt Lancaster), and laborer Leo Dalco (Sterling Hayden), is quickly established in the enmity between the characters. The director is graphic in his depiction of ... [exploitive ownership] ...
As they grow, the boys become friends, mystified by the tensions that separate their families.
But as time passes and Alfredo assumes the role of padrone, while Olmo works the land, their relationship becomes strained. With the rise of fascism, the director spells out its complicity with business interests, as the diffident Alfredo falls under the spell of a vicious and degraded fascist farm manager played by Donald Sutherland.
Bertolucci, as he has in The Conformist (1970) and The Last Emperor (1987), brilliantly uses characterization to imply and contrast the crippling emotional effects of wealth and power. [Also the issue of extreme poverty during a year of crop failure.] At over five hours in the restored version, the stately film has a kind of cumulative power now rare on the screen.
... Among the large cast, the two leads are exceptional, with De Niro evincing an unusual vulnerability. Sutherland gives a disturbingly brilliant performance, and Lancaster is also memorable as the stern landowner. Vittorio Storaro, Bertolucci's longtime collaborator, and one of the greatest of cinematographers, produces images of breathtaking beauty ... the rapturous shots of the vast fields ... One comes away from this majestic undertaking with a sense of wonder, and awareness that it's not likely to be replicated any time soon. ~ Michael Costello, All Movie Guide
* Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
* AMG Rating: ****
* Genre: Drama
* Movie Type: Family Drama, Period Film
* Themes: Rise To Power, Class Differences, Political Unrest
* Main Cast: Robert De Niro, Gérard Depardieu, Burt Lancaster, Sterling Hayden, Donald Sutherland, Dominique Sanda
* Release Year: 1976
* Country: IT/WG/FR
* Run Time: 315 minutes
* MPAA Rating: RCast
* Robert De Niro - Alfredo Berlinghieti, grandson
* Gérard Depardieu - Olmo Dalco
* Burt Lancaster - Alfredo Berlinghieri, grandfather
* Sterling Hayden - Leo Dalco
* Donald Sutherland - Attila
* Dominique Sanda - Ada
Filmography
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernardo_Bertolucci
* La commare secca (1962)
* Before the Revolution (Prima della rivoluzione, 1964)
* La via del petrolio (1965)
* Il Canale (1966)
* Partner (1968)
* Amore e rabbia (1969, episode "il Fico Infruttuoso")
* L'Inchiesta (1971) (TV)
* La strategia del ragno (The Spider's Stratagem, 1970)
* Il conformista (The Conformist, 1970)
* Ultimo tango a Parigi (Last Tango in Paris, 1973)
* 1900 (Novecento, 1976)
* La Luna (Luna, 1979)
* La tragedia di un uomo ridicolo (1981)
* L'ultimo imperatore (The Last Emperor, 1987)
* The Sheltering Sky (1990)
* Little Buddha (1993)
* Stealing Beauty (Io ballo da sola, 1996)
* Besieged (1998)
* Ten Minutes Older: The Cello (2002)
* The Dreamers (2003)
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