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1976 · Movie · R · 317 min · ★ 7.8 · 64% critics
In early-20th-century rural Italy, two boys born on the same day grow up as close friends despite belonging to opposite social classes. As the country is swept up in war and political upheaval, their bond is tested by widening divisions between landowners and workers, and the harsh realities of the era.
Also known as Twentieth Century · Novecento
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Details
- Original title
- Novecento
- Years
- 1976
- Release date
- 1976-08-28
- Language
- Italian
- Rated
- R
- Runtime
- 317 min
- Critic score
- 64/100
- TMDB rating
- 7.8/10 (683 votes)
About
You may like this if you want a sprawling, emotionally intense political saga about friendship and class conflict across decades; Not for you if you dislike very long films, explicit content, or blunt ideology, like in Never Look Away.
Pros: sweeping historical scope; vivid rural atmosphere; memorable performances | Cons: extremely long runtime; graphic, upsetting moments; heavy-handed politics
Themes
- italy
- resistance
- fascism
- peasant
- world war ii
- execution
- brutality
- death
- catholicism
- land owner
- communism
- class struggle
Cast & crew
Robert De Niro
as Alfredo Berlinghieri
Gérard Depardieu
as Olmo Dalcò
Dominique Sanda
as Ada Fiestri Paulhan
Stefania Sandrelli
as Anita Foschi
Donald Sutherland
as Attila Mellanchini
Burt Lancaster
as Alfredo Berlinghieri the Elder
Francesca Bertini
as Sister Desolata
Laura Betti
as Regina
Werner Bruhns
as Ottavio Berlinghieri
Stefania Casini
as Neve
Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci