original title:
Prima della fine. Gli ultimi giorni di Enrico Berlinguer
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production:
Echivisivi, Salice Production, Solaria Film, AAMOD Fondazione Archivio Audiovisivo del Movimento Operaio e Democratico, Sky, supported by Ministero della Cultura, with the support of Emilia-Romagna Film Commission
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country:
Italy
year:
2024
format:
colour
release date:
13/06/2024
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It’s June 7, 1984, when Enrico Berlinguer, during an election rally in Padua, feels a sudden illness. He carries through with his speech, but shortly thereafter goes into a coma for four days, until his death on June 11. On June 13, the most impressive political funeral in the history of the Republic takes place in Rome: two million people take to the streets. The film offers an accurate and renewed narrative and visual reconstruction of those 7 days that shook Italy. It recounts with a new perspective a moment of passage and an end: that of a beloved politician, of an entire party, of an idea of country, perhaps even the end of an era.