Belinguer - The great ambition by Andrea Segre was the opening film, in competition, at the 19th Rome Film Fest (16 to 27 October 2024) held at the Auditorium Parco della Musica Ennio Morricone. Written by Andrea Segre and Marco Pettenello, the film is a Vivo film and Jolefilm production with Rai Cinema in co-production with Tarantula (Belgium) and Agitprop (Bulgaria).
With this film, Andrea Segre brings the story of the public and private life of Enrico Berlinguer to the big screen, from his trip to Sofia in 1973, when he escaped an attack by the Bulgarian secret services, to the 1978 assassination of Aldo Moro and with that, the dramatic end to the “historic compromise” strategy, the great attempt to unite the popular Catholic and socialist forces to lead the country.
The political leader who died forty years ago is played by Elio Germano. Alongside, the cast includes, in alphabetical order: Stefano Abbati (Umberto Terracini), Francesco Acquaroli (Pietro Ingrao), Paolo Calabresi (Ugo Pecchioli), Roberto Citran (Aldo Moro), Pierluigi Corallo (Antonio Tatò), Nikolay Danchev (Leonid Brezhnev), Svetoslav Dobrev (Todor Živkov), Luca Lazzareschi (Alessandro Natta), Lucio Patanè (Gianni Cervetti), Andrea Pennacchi (Luciano Barca), Paolo Pierobon (Giulio Andreotti), Elena Radonicich (Letizia Laurenti), Fabrizia Sacchi (Nilde Iotti), Giorgio Tirabassi (Alberto Menichelli).
The film was shot mainly in Rome, but also in Sardinia and Sofia.
Belinguer - The great ambition by Andrea Segre was the opening film, in competition, at the 19th Rome Film Fest (16 to 27 October 2024) held at the Auditorium Parco della Musica Ennio Morricone. Written by Andrea Segre and Marco Pettenello, the film is a Vivo film and Jolefilm production with Rai Cinema in co-production with Tarantula (Belgium) and Agitprop (Bulgaria).
With this film, Andrea Segre brings the story of the public and private life of Enrico Berlinguer to the big screen, from his trip to Sofia in 1973, when he escaped an attack by the Bulgarian secret services, to the 1978 assassination of Aldo Moro and with that, the dramatic end to the “historic compromise” strategy, the great attempt to unite the popular Catholic and socialist forces to lead the country.
The political leader who died forty years ago is played by Elio Germano. Alongside, the cast includes, in alphabetical order: Stefano Abbati (Umberto Terracini), Francesco Acquaroli (Pietro Ingrao), Paolo Calabresi (Ugo Pecchioli), Roberto Citran (Aldo Moro), Pierluigi Corallo (Antonio Tatò), Nikolay Danchev (Leonid Brezhnev), Svetoslav Dobrev (Todor Živkov), Luca Lazzareschi (Alessandro Natta), Lucio Patanè (Gianni Cervetti), Andrea Pennacchi (Luciano Barca), Paolo Pierobon (Giulio Andreotti), Elena Radonicich (Letizia Laurenti), Fabrizia Sacchi (Nilde Iotti), Giorgio Tirabassi (Alberto Menichelli).
The film was shot mainly in Rome, but also in Sardinia and Sofia.
Vivo Film, Jolefilm, Tarantula, Agitprop, Rai Cinema
When everyone believes that a way forward is impossible, should one pause for contemplation? No, was the answer for Enrico Berlinguer, leader of the most important communist party in the Western world in the 1970s, with over 1,700,000 members and more than 12 million voters, united by the great ambition of realizing socialism in democracy. Challenging the dogmas of the Cold War and a world divided in two, Berlinguer and the PCI (Italian Communist Party) strived for election to government, opening up a season of dialogue with the Christian Democrats and coming close to changing history. This is the story of a man and a population for whom life and politics, private and collective, were inextricably linked. It extend from 1973, when he escaped an attack by the Bulgarian services in Sofia, through electoral campaigns and trips to Moscow, global newspapers headlines and risky relationships with power, to the 1978 assassination of Aldo Moro, leader of the Christian Democrats.
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