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Bernardo Bertolucci directs this Italian epic drama that follows the birth and growth of Fascism in 20th century Italy. While Alfredo belongs to a family of rich land-owners Olmo was born as an illegitimate peasant worker.
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Two Italian boys born on the same day are destined for divergent paths; Olmo is born to peasant parents and will become a passionate socialist, while Alfredo's bourgeois, landowning origins will lead him to ultimately embrace fascism.Product Identifiers
EAN5039036033220
eBay Product ID (ePID)59530082
Product Key Features
ActorDonald Sutherland, Robert De Niro, Maria Schneider, Gerard Depardieu, Burt Lancaster
Film/TV Title1900
DirectorBernardo Bertolucci
LanguageEnglish
Run Time327 Mins
Aspect Ratio16:9 Wide Screen
Release Year2008
FormatDVD
FeaturesWidescreen, Creating an Epic Featurette\The Story, the Cast Featurette
GenreDrama, Historical
Additional Product Features
Number of Discs1
Certificate18
Country/Region of ManufactureItaly
ComposerEnnio Morricone
Additional InformationBernardo 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.
ReviewsEmpire - An epic masterpiece...
Sound sourceDolby Digital
Movie/TV Title1900
Consumer AdviceContains one scene of strong real sex
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- 29 Nov, 2018
Powerful social drama tracing changes in rural Italy during the first half of the twentieth century.
A beautifully filmed story based around the friendship between two youths from very different social backgrounds, growing up in a near-feudal country estate in a picturesque part of Italy. It traces social and political changes in Italy in the first half of the twentieth century. Some would say that the film is too long and is slow-moving; however, bear in mind that this is not a Hollywood action film, but a European ‘ art movie’ by Bernardo Bertolucci, an auteur director who produced some of his most interesting work during that period of the’60s and ‘70s when directors were given more of a free-hand to explore their own ideas.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 25 May, 2023
Should have been a TV mini-series not Cinema release
Bleak, but interesting insight from Bertolucci. Great to see De Niro and Sutherland and Depardieu. Masterful from Sterling Hayden and Burt Lancaster. Ennio Morricone always has something to listen to. Understood why it failed at box office but interesting anyway.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 14 Oct, 2017
This film is a classic.
Because it lasts for over 5 hours this film is a bit off putting for some. However, for enthusiastic lovers of epic movies with excellent actors, this relatively unknown film is a gem.Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
- 24 Feb, 2017
A Forgotten Film
The story of the political evolution of Italy through the life of two families.Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
- 22 May, 2024
Everything fine thanks. Highly recommended.
Everything fine thanks. Highly recommended.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 23 May, 2024
Good value
Good valueVerified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
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