‘The Great Ambition,’ Biopic About Italy’s Late Communist Party Leader Enrico Berlinguer, Scores International Sales (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comNick Vivarelli International Correspondent Italy’s Fandango Film Sales has landed a number of sales on Andrea Segre’s “The Great Ambition,” a biopic of the late Italian political leader Enrico Berlinguer, who was secretary of Western Europe’s largest Communist Party during the 1970s.
The surprisingly timely film, which is produced by Rome-based indie Vivo film (“Nico, 1988,” “Le Quattro Volte”), opened the Rome Film Festival last year and went on to become a hit in Italian cinemas where it has pulled more than $4 million — and counting — becoming one last years’ top ten local box office draws.
Italian A-lister Elio Germano (pictured) — who won top actor honors in Cannes with Daniele Luchetti’s “Our Life” — plays Berlinguer, who led the Italian Communist Party (PCI) from 1972 until his death in 1984.
Berlinguer nearly brought the PCI to power in the Italian parliamentary elections of 1976. “When a way forward seems impossible to everyone, do you have to stop?
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