Anschauen

1900

1977

Bernardo Bertolucci

★★★½

311

Sweepingly sexy, violent Bertolucci epic, with rapturous Vittorio Storaro cinematography, begins with the same-day birth of sons respectively sired by a landowner and a laborer who works his estate. The rest runs the gamut of 20th-century political bases, starting with the respective fascistic and socialistic leanings these two friendly protagonists develop on their road to middle age. Chain-sawed down to 243 minutes for an initial U.S. release that pleased no one, this flawed, one-of-a-kind epic of great sweep, humanity, and power doesn't seem fully realized even at its original running time. Yet aiming for the fences, it reaches them often enough to have become one of its era's most notable cult movies.

tt0074084

[NC-17]

Robert De Niro, Gérard Depardieu, Donald Sutherland, Burt Lancaster, Dominique Sanda, Stefania Sandrelli, Sterling Hayden

Italian-French-German

Drama

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