1900, Italy-France-Germany, 1977, 311 min. Starring Gerard Depardieu, Robert De Niro, Donald Sutherland, Burt Lancaster. Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci. Sprawling epic of two men, one born well-off, the other to a family of laborers, whose lives intertwine over the first half of the twentieth century. Their fascinating story symbolically lays out the various turning points and events causing the political upheaval that led to fascism, communism and World War II.