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| 1900 (Novecento) |
Bertolucci traces Italy's social and political history, following two boys born on the same day in 1901 (the date of Giuseppe Verdi's death).
Olmo (Gérard Depardieu), is the son of peasants and destined to be socialist. Alfredo (Robert De Niro), is the son of landowners and destined to be a hopeless bourgeois, unwitting defender of fascism and inadvertent propagator of crimes against his labourers.
Tackling issues of courage and morality,
Novecento is a beautiful Marxist treatise on the eternal combat waged between the workers and those who would own their work.
