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1976 Certificate 18
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Bernardo Bertolucci's vast historical melodrama used the massive popular, critical, and financial success of its predecessor, the scandalous LAST TANGO IN PARIS, to mount a production of epic scale. The film utilises an all-star Hollywood cast to tell its heavily Marxist tale of Italian peasants during the twentieth century. .. Read more

Starring Robert De Niro, Gerard Depardieu, Burt Lancaster, Donald Sutherland
Director Bernardo Bertolucci
Genres Drama, World Cinema

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Bernardo Bertolucci's vast historical melodrama used the massive popular, critical, and financial success of its predecessor, the scandalous LAST TANGO IN PARIS, to mount a production of epic scale. The film utilises an all-star Hollywood cast to tell its heavily Marxist tale of Italian peasants during the twentieth century. Two boys born on the same day are destined for divergent paths; Olmo (played by Gerard Depardeiu) is born to peasant parents and will become a passionate socialist, while Alfredo's (Robert De Niro) bourgeois, landowning origins will lead him to ultimately embrace fascism. Driven by a sincere hope for and belief in political change, Bertolucci's film is nonetheless made up of very humane individual stories; it concentrates on highly personal experiences of a politically-charged time, which colour the little dramas of love, sex, family, and community. It is at once an epic poem and a political manifesto, and it is the product of a director who was unabashedly communist in his youth. The fact that 1900 managed to get released by a major American studio during the height of the Cold War is remarkable in itself. The final sequence, which portrays the Italian peasants overthrowing their fascist masters and dancing beneath the red flag of Communism, sparked controversy on all sides, with the left criticising it for historical inaccuracy, and the right obviously inflamed by the glorification of Communism. Bertolucci himself called it a dream sequence, an anticipation of the revolution yet to come, and indeed the entire movie is something of a celebration of the human spirit and the will to overcome.

Starring Robert De Niro, Gerard Depardieu, Burt Lancaster, Donald Sutherland, Maria Schneider
Director Bernardo Bertolucci
Studio 20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Run time DVD: 5 hrs 27 mins
Certificate Certificate 18
Genres Drama, World Cinema
Language DVD: English
Released Production year: 1976

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