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A production: Vivo Film, Jolefilm and RAI Cinema, in coproduction with Tarantula and Agitprop
Genre: DRAMA
Runtime: 122' min
Country: ITALY/BELGIUM/BULGARIA
Directed by Andrea Segre
Starring Elio Germano
Italy, 1970. Enrico Berlinguer is the Secretary of the most important Communist party in the western world , with over one million seven hundred thousand card-holding members and more than twelve million voters, united by the great ambition of achieving socialism within a democracy. Challenging the dogmas of the Cold War and a world divided in two, Berlinguer and the Italian Communist Party (PCI) sought for five years to come to power, opening a season of dialogue with the Christian Democracy and coming just an inch from changing history.
After escaping an assassination attempt by the Bulgarian secret services in Sofia, the election campaigns and the trips to Moscow, the front pages of newspapers worldwide and the risky relationship with power, until the assassination in 1978 of the President of the Christian Democracy Aldo Moro, the film tells the story of a man and a people for whom life and politics, the private and the collective, were irremediably bound together. When a way forward seems impossible to everyone, do you have to stop?