1900

1900 is an epic of Italian life - from the idyllic summer of 1900, through the long winter of war and Fascism to the spring of hope in 1945...

1900 is the story of two men: Alfredo Berlinghieri, heir to a rich, landed family, and Olmo Dalcò, bastard of a family of peasants – and the strange kinship that bound them to one another through a half-century of violence…

1900 is a sweeping portrait of an age and of a nation: the peasants’ hovels, the glittering decadence of the Jazz Age; the brutal Fascists and the socialists who dared to mock them. It is a novel of love – and lust; of great cruelty and greater heroism…

1900 is a film by Bernardo Bertolucci, whose Last Tango in Paris began a whole new era in film-making. Bertolucci now returns to his native Italy, to make the epic film of the century.