Berlinguer, I Love You
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Director Giuseppe Bertolucci Duration Country Italy | 7/10 IMDb Genre Comedy, Drama Language Italian | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Writer Giuseppe Bertolucci , Roberto Benigni Release date 1976 Music director Pier Farri, Franco Coletta Screenplay Roberto Benigni, Giuseppe Bertolucci Cast Roberto Benigni (Mario Cioni), Alida Valli (Mamma di Mario), Carlo Monni (Bozzone), Sergio Forconi (Uomo della tombola)Similar movies Roberto Benigni appears in Berlinguer I Love You and directed You Disturb Me | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Berlinguer ti voglio bene (internationally released as Berlinguer, I Love You) is a 1977 Italian comedy film written and directed by Giuseppe Bertolucci. It is the debut film of both Bertolucci and Roberto Benigni.
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It is based on the stage play Cioni Mario di Gaspare fu Giulia, that the same Bertolucci wrote and directed in 1975 and in which Benigni played the character of Mario Cioni, a character he later resumed in the variety television Onda libera. The title quotes Cioni's declaration of love for Enrico Berlinguer, then leader of the Italian Communist Party.
Plot
Mario is a guy of the underclass of Tuscany, who lives without doing anything in his life. His friends make him jokes, while Mario lives in the myth of Enrico Berlinguer, trusting into indifference. Mario is very attached to his mother, because he has the Oedipus complex, and when he loses a game of poker with a friend, this tells Mario about having sex with his mother: this is the penalty cause of the game. Mario is disgusted, but gradually he falls in love with his mother, who however rejects him and prefers to go to bed exactly with the friend who offered to Mario the cruel bet. So Mario finds his friend as a stepfather.
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References
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