The 1970s communist hero inspiring Italy’s youth – and the far right
Enrico Berlinguer was a giant of the Italian left in the 1970s and 80s,
coming close to leading the Communist party into government through a “historic compromise” with the country’s Christian Democrats,
and championing “Eurocommunism”, a liberal, anti-Stalinist version of Marxism that briefly swept the continent.
But his death 40 years ago, and the collapse of Europe’s communist parties in the late 1980s, eclipsed Berlinguer’s legacy,
and Italy has since moved across the political spectrum, electing the far-right Giorgia Meloni as prime minister in 2022.
Now Berlinguer is having a revival in popularity, including among rightwing figures, as a film about his life opens the Rome film festival next week before an international release.
Berlinguer – La Grande Ambizione
(The Great Ambition)
will take viewers through the historical events that marked his career,
from challenging the dogma of the cold war, and narrowly escaping an attempt on his life in Bulgaria,
to taking the Italian Communist party (PCI) to the brink of power in the 1970s and standing firm against the political terrorism that seethed in Italyduring that period.
Andrea Segre, its 48-year-old director, described the biopic as “a journey through a piece of history that I did not live through and which I learned to understand”.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/12/enrico-berlinguer-communism-hero-italy-youth-far-right-film?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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