Set in Italy, the film follows the lives and interactions of two boys/men, one born a bastard of peasant stock (Depardieu), the other born to a land owner (de Niro). The drama spans from 1900 to about 1945, and focuses mainly on the rise of Fascism and the peasants' eventual reaction by supporting Communism, and how these events shape the destinies of the two main characters.
class struggle, socialist, male full frontal nudity, world war two, farm worker, army, penis, brutality, child murder, peasant, epic, catholic church, servant, violence, world war one, strike, repression, menage a trois, carabinieri, sexual attraction
Great moments stud Bernardo Bertolucci's 1976 Marxist epic, but the end result is ambiguous.
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