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The Best of Youth

La meglio gioventù

Marco Tullio Giordana  ·  Italy  ·  2003

Originally broadcast as an Italian miniseries, this six-hour epic follows the Carati brothers across four decades — from the turbulence of the 1960s student movements through political terrorism and the catastrophic Florence floods into the 21st century. Giordana's vast, novelistic chronicle uses one family's diverging lives as a prism through which to read the whole of postwar Italian history, with an emotional generosity rare in contemporary cinema.

Language

Italian

Cast

Luigi Lo Cascio, Alessio Boni, Adriana Asti, Sonia Bergamasco, Fabrizio Gifuni, Maya Sansa

Awards

  • Cannes Film Festival Prix de la critique internationale (Un Certain Regard) 2003
  • David di Donatello Best Film 2004