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Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: PARAMOUNT PICTURES
EAN: 0097360880441
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Paramount
Manufacturer: Paramount
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Paramount
Region Code: 1
Release Date: December 05, 2006
Running Time: 315 minutes
Sales Rank: 7359
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: November 04, 1977
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Bernardo Bertolucci's sweeping epic follows the friendship of two men from opposing classes in early 20th-century Italy. Robert De Niro stars as a wealthy but weak-willed landowner who becomes a pawn of the fascists and Gerard Depardieu is a Marxist insurgent farm worker. With Burt Lancaster Dominique Sanda Donald Sutherland Sterling Hayden Stefania Sandrelli.System Requirements:Run Time: 345 minsFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: UNRATED UPC: 097360880441 Manufacturer No: 088044
Amazon.com essential video:
1900 is one of Bernardo Bertolucci's adventures in epic filmmaking that never found the reception he had hoped for. Originally more than six hours long, it was chopped down to four hours for its U.S. release and as a result looked, well, choppy. Eventually, he restored it to five hours--but one wonders at all the effort on behalf of this alternately muddled and stunning story. The film, with a decidedly socialist agenda, examines two lives that begin the same year in rural Italy: the weak-willed son of the aristocracy (Robert De Niro) and the hardy, courageous son of peasants (Gerard Depardieu). They grow up as best friends on the same estate, until class differences pull them apart and then the era's fascist politics divide them for good. Despite strong performances by both leads, as well as Sterling Hayden, Donald Sutherland, Dominique Sanda, and Burt Lancaster, this one is strictly for Bertolucci's most avid fans. --Marshall Fine
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - A Qualified Masterpiece
"We don't want vengeance. We want order first...We are the new crusaders!"
--a patrone' (landowner aristocrat)
I know what you're probably thinking, throwing spitballs at an obscure masterpiece is the equivalent of bullying. Accuse me of having a short attention span, but I thought there were many ways Bertolucci could have tightened up '1900,' his epic about the rise of socialism and fascism in Italy during the last century. There are plenty of haunting scenes to be ... Read More
Rating:  - A truly great movie!
If you want to know what 20th century history is from a European or Italian point of view, you ought to see this film.
If you want to just enjoy an impressive story about three generations, love, hatred, loyalty and betrayal, you ought to see ths film.
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Rating: - Brilliant, yet not for every taste...
Bertolucci's massive epic has wonderful and grim moments, and is a must for every serious cinema buff. That said, it isn't for everyone and demands much of the viewer. Dominique Sanda's performance alone is worth your time, to say nothing of De Niro back in the days when he still acted...
Rating:  - Nove-sucko
I am giving this movie 2 stars because of the cinemotography and the potential of the story. This endless, wanna-be epic falls short in virtually every area. The characters are one-dimensional caricatures -- simple, but noble peasants, tyrannical landowners, perverted fascists. Sometimes, as in the case of DeNiro's wife, they are just plain annoying. The plot is so slow, trivial, and oft-times bordering on ridiculous that the five plus hour run time seems like ten.
Despite the seemingly ... Read More
Rating:  - A time capsule of great actors...
I can only give "1900" three stars as a movie, but I can recommend it highly for its beautiful cinematography of rural Italy and its showcase of some fine stars as they were in 1976. If you liked DeNiro as the young Don in "The Godfather", you'll see lots of the same in this movie. Burt Lancaster gives you a fine portrayal of Burt Lancaster, this time as an Italian padrone which is a bit different.
But my favorite is the young Donald Sutherland brilliantly playing his trademark oily, snarky, ... Read More
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