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I did not live the Italian First Republic, my memories start with 90s, and similarly to many of my generation I could not comprehend how the politic was before Silvio Berlusconi. Then I am really grateful to Walter Veltroni for having directed this precious documentary/film.

Lots of interviews (with the actual President, with companions of the Communist Party and with political opponents, with Ingrao, with Berlinguer's daughter Bianca who revealed something of his private profile) and original sequences of Berlinguer's speeches contribute to lift the fog upon a quite controversial historical period for Italy.

The style is similar to a narration, which is very dear to the author, where every character has been investigated both by the emotional and by the political point of view. At the end of the documentary I felt Berlinguer's words so deep, revolutionary and actual. I am grateful with the author for this work.

This biography recounts the political significance of Enrico Berlinguer through old footage of his rallies and witnesses of public and political figures.

Through various passages, his first battle, the Years of Lead and his final, strenuous and stoic rally in Padua, the director Veltroni portrays Berlinguer's passion and struggling for his ideas and values of a fine intellectual.

The various interviews have the dual purpose to giving a context and to delineating his person, although only one of his four sons has been interviewed.

My opinion on this title is positive, the narrative mechanisms are well oiled, although it leaves an impression of a nostalgic good old days operation, where our present is juxtaposed with a gloriously idealized past.

Nevertheless, the emotion reached on the climax is spontaneous and authentic.