Like a lighter, condensed version of their sprawling, six-hour BEST OF YOUTH, screenwriters Sandro Petraglia and Stefano Rulli's adaptation of Antonio Pennacchi's novel follows two brothers who find themselves on opposite ends of the ideological spectrum during the politically charged late 1960s and early '70s,.
Teenage Accio (Elio Germano) and his older brother Manrico (Riccardo Scarmaccio) were raised 40 miles outside of Rome in Latina, a working-class suburb planned and built in the early 1930s by Mussolini's regime, and where memories of Italy's ignoble recent past are slow to fade. Their father (Massimo Popolizio) is a struggling factory worker who rue...
Released:
2008
Rated:
NR
Length:
108 mins