The Great Ambition
Open Roads: New Italian Cinema 2025
May 29 - June 5, 2025
Winner of the best actor prize at the Rome Film Festival, the great Elio Germano stars as Enrico Berlinguer in Andrea Segre’s moving and intelligently plotted biopic, following the former leader of the Italian Communist Party between 1973 and 1978. Nominated for 15 Donatello Awards.
The great Elio Germano stars as Enrico Berlinguer in Andrea Segre’s moving and intelligently plotted biopic, nominated for 15 Donatello Awards. The film follows Berlinguer between 1973 and 1978—as the then-leader of the Italian Communist Party, Berlinguer finds himself caught by the tides of history and the political convulsions of the 1970s. Germano, who took home the award for best actor at the Rome Festival, is excellent as a man who, in scenes both spectacularly public and intimately personal, gracefully bears the weight of the world on his shoulders while trying to preserve the integrity of his convictions.
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