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The Great Ambition

2024 · 122 min Drama History
7.2 / 10 · TMDB

Enrico Berlinguer, secretary of the most powerful Communist Party in the Western world, challenges the international balance. His ambition is to bring Communists to government in Italy through democracy, forging a unique path toward 'socialism in freedom.' From surviving an assassination attempt by Bulgarian secret services in 1973 to the traumatic murder of his key ally Aldo Moro in 1978, his journey is marked by tense trips to Moscow, covers of Time magazine, and a colossal struggle for an ideal that ultimately remained out of reach. It is the story of a man who dared to dream of a different world.

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Original Title Berlinguer: La grande ambizione
Year 2024
Country Italy, Belgium, Bulgaria
Genre Drama, History
Director Andrea Segre
Runtime 122 min.
Rating TMDB: 7.2/10 (158 votes)

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The film transcends political biography to become a study in the psychology of a man torn between ideal and reality. The rallies and backroom dealings serve as a backdrop for a deeper tragedy of isolation at the pinnacle of power.

What lingers after the credits is a meditation on the cost of principle in a world of compromise, and how a shattered dream continues to cast its long shadow. It evokes a bitter nostalgia for an era when politics was still a matter of faith. — MovieFinder Editorial

Director: Andrea Segre

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Tense negotiations in dimly lit rooms, the echo of footsteps in marble halls of power, the electric crackle of vast rallies.

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