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1900 (Special Collector's Edition)
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Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0097360880441
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Paramount
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), English (Published), Italian (Published), French (Published),
Manufacturer: Paramount
MPN: D088044D
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Paramount
Region Code: 1
Release Date: December 05, 2006
Running Time: 315 minutes
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: November 04, 1977
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Editorial Review:
1900 is one of Bernardo Bertolucci's adventures in epic filmmaking that never found the reception he had hoped for. Originally more than six hours long, it was chopped down to four hours for its U.S. release and as a result looked, well, choppy. Eventually, he restored it to five hours--but one wonders at all the effort on behalf of this alternately muddled and stunning story. The film, with a decidedly socialist agenda, examines two lives that begin the same year in rural Italy: the weak-willed son of the aristocracy (Robert De Niro) and the hardy, courageous son of peasants (Gerard Depardieu). They grow up as best friends on the same estate, until class differences pull them apart and then the era's fascist politics divide them for good. Despite strong performances by both leads, as well as Sterling Hayden, Donald Sutherland, Dominique Sanda, and Burt Lancaster, this one is strictly for Bertolucci's most avid fans. --Marshall Fine
Bernardo Bertolucci's massive epic, a history of Italy from 1900 to 1945 as reflected through the friendship of two men across class lines, is one of the most fascinating, if little seen, of his films. After beginning with Robert DeNiro as wealthy landowner Alfredo, and Gerard Depardieu as labor leader Olmo, the film returns to 1900 with the death of composer Giuseppi Verdi and the birth of the two friends. The opposing class interests of their grandfathers, padrone Burt Lancaster, and laborer Sterling Hayden, is quickly established in the enmity between the characters. As they grow, the boys become friends, mystified by the tensions that separate their families. But as time passes and Alfredo assumes the role of padrone, while Olmo works the land, their relationship becomes strained. With the rise of fascism, the director spells out its complicity with business interests, as the diffident Alfredo falls under the spell of a vicious and degraded fascist farm manager played by Donald Su
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Brilliant, yet not for every taste...
Bertolucci's massive epic has wonderful and grim moments, and is a must for every serious cinema buff. That said, it isn't for everyone and demands much of the viewer. Dominique Sanda's performance alone is worth your time, to say nothing of De Niro back in the days when he still acted...
Rating:  - Nove-sucko
I am giving this movie 2 stars because of the cinemotography and the potential of the story. This endless, wanna-be epic falls short in virtually every area. The characters are one-dimensional caricatures -- simple, but noble peasants, tyrannical landowners, perverted fascists. Sometimes, as in the case of DeNiro's wife, they are just plain annoying. The plot is so slow, trivial, and oft-times bordering on ridiculous that the five plus hour run time seems like ten.
Despite the seemingly ... Read More
Rating:  - A time capsule of great actors...
I can only give "1900" three stars as a movie, but I can recommend it highly for its beautiful cinematography of rural Italy and its showcase of some fine stars as they were in 1976. If you liked DeNiro as the young Don in "The Godfather", you'll see lots of the same in this movie. Burt Lancaster gives you a fine portrayal of Burt Lancaster, this time as an Italian padrone which is a bit different.
But my favorite is the young Donald Sutherland brilliantly playing his trademark oily, snarky, ... Read More
Rating: - A true landmark in the story of cinema!
The Italian Neo Realism was indeed, a hitherto in the story of Cinema. Whether Jean Renoir's Tony (1934) has been the first antecedent of this genre, the certain of case is that Bernardo Bertolucci felt an inner call in order to pay a tribute to this genre and decided to build an ambitious and colossal portrait around two families at the eve of the Century but focusing the unsaid details that remain as part of the main structure of the history; in fact we will witness to the arouse of the violence under three ... Read More
Rating: - A disturbing, violent, fascinating epic . . .
Bernardo Bertolucci's "epic masterpiece of friendship and betrayal" is not an easy film to watch. It's long--five hours--and very violent (you will never look at actor Donald Sutherland the same way again--his performance is so disturbing--he plays a truly evil character who kills his way to power and then kills some more), but I couldn't take my eyes away from the screen. It's a gorgeous film, beautifully photographed--and the acting is amazing (besides Mr. Sutherland's captivating performance, a very young ... Read More
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