1900
Novecento
Dvajseto stoletje
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The great European epic with Robert De Niro and Gerard Depardieu in leading roles problematizes the rise of Italian fascism through the fate of two families - rich landowners and peasants.

The movie begins on the day of Verdi's death. It records the births of boys in two families - Alfredo to a rich landowning family, and Olmo to peasants living on their land. The boys grow up together as playmates. As they grow up, the boys also grow apart. Their fathers die, and so the young men become heirs to the ancient customs and feuds of the region. Mussolini is on the rise.

"For me Novecento is a microcosm, as Strategia del ragno had been to some extent before it. If you look at a speck of dirt under the microscope it is as if you were looking at the universe in the great planetarium of a film by Nicholas Ray. A speck of dirt makes you dream, and the microcosm of Novecento really ought to be like that: a tiny region of Italy much enlarged and thus in some ways made- horrible word-universal." (Bernardo Bertolucci)
Section: RETRO: CINEMA POLITICO
Directed by: Bernardo Bertolucci
Country, year: Italy, France, Germany, 1976
Length: 317
Subtitles: English,Slovenian
Language: Italian, English

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Screenplay:
Franco Arcalli, Giuseppe Bertolucci, Bernardo Bertolucci
Cinematography:
Vittorio Storaro
Music:
Ennio Morricone
Cast:
Robert De Niro (Alfredo Berlinghieri), Gérard Depardieu (Olmo Dalco), Dominique Sanda (Ada Fiastri Paulhan), Francesca Bertini (sestra Desolata), Laura Betti (Regina), Werner Bruhns (Ottavio Berlinghieri), Stefania Casini (Neve), Sterling Hayden (Leo Dalco)
Producent:
Produzioni Europee Associate & Les Productions Artistes Associés & Artemis Film
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About director
Born in 1941, Parma, Italy, into a family of artists. After serving as assistant director to Pier Paolo Pasolini on Accattone (1961), Bertolucci discontinued his literary studies to focus on filmmaking. Today recognized as one of the greatest figures in the history of Italian cinema, Bertolucci is the recipient of two Academy Awards, two Golden Globes, a Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement and an honorary Golden Palm. He died in 2018.
Filmography
1970 Il conformista (The Conformist)
1972 Ultimo tango a Parigi (Last Tango in Paris/Zadnji tango v Parizu)
1976 Novecento (1900/Dvajseto stoletje)
1987 L'ultimo imperatore (The Last Emperor/Zadnji kitajski cesar)
1990 The Sheltering Sky (Čaj v Sahari)
1993 Little Buddha (Mali Buda)
1996 Stealing Beauty (Plešem sama)
2003 The Dreamers (Sanjači)
2012 Me and You