Berlinguer, I Love You

Berlinguer, I Love You
Directed byGiuseppe Bertolucci
Written byGiuseppe Bertolucci
Roberto Benigni
Produced byGianni Minervini
Antonio Avati
StarringRoberto Benigni
Alida Valli
Carlo Monni
CinematographyRenato Tafuri
Edited byGabriella Cristiani
Music byPier Luigi Farri
Distributed byEuro International Film
Release date
  • 6 October 1977 (1977-10-06)
Running time
90 minutes
CountryItaly
LanguageItalian

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 for both Bertolucci and Roberto Benigni.

It is based on the stage play Cioni Mario di Gaspare fu Giulia, which Bertolucci wrote and directed in 1975 and in which Benigni played the character of Mario Cioni, a character he later resumed in the television mini-series Onda libera.[1][2] The title quotes Cioni's declaration of love for Enrico Berlinguer, then leader of the Italian Communist Party.

Plot

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Mario is a man of the underclass of Tuscany, who works as a construction worker and lives in the myth of Enrico Berlinguer. Mario has an Oedipus complex, being very attached to his mother, and his friends make jokes of him. When he loses a game of cards with Bozzone, one of his friend, he doesn't know how to deal with his gambling debt and the friend asks him for payment to have sex with his mother. Mario's mother and Bozzone, after the first experience, will begin to like each other and live like a real family, upsetting Mario's life further.

Cast

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References

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  1. ^ Eva Marinai; Sara Poeta; Igor Vazzaz. Comicità negli anni Settanta. ETS, 2005.
  2. ^ Franco Montini. Una Generazione in cinema: esordi ed esordienti italiani, 1975–1988. Marsilio, 1988.
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