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Berlinguer ti voglio bene (internationally released as Berlinguer, I Love You) is a 1977 Italian comedy film written and directed by Giuseppe Bertolucci. It is the debut film of both Bertolucci and Roberto Benigni.

Berlinguer, I Love You
Directed by	Giuseppe Bertolucci
Written by	Giuseppe Bertolucci Roberto Benigni
Produced by	Gianni Minervini Antonio Avati
Starring	Roberto Benigni Alida Valli Carlo Monni
Cinematography	Renato Tafuri
Edited by	Gabriella Cristiani
Music by	Pier Luigi Farri
Distributed by	Euro International Film
Release date	1976
Running time	90 minutes
Country	Italy
Language	Italian

It is based on the stage play Cioni Mario di Gaspare fu Giulia, that the same Bertolucci wrote and directed in 1975 and in which Benigni played the character of Mario Cioni, a character he later resumed in the variety television Onda libera.[1][2] The title quotes Cioni's declaration of love for Enrico Berlinguer, then leader of the Italian Communist Party.

Plot

Mario is a guy of the underclass of Tuscany, who works as a construction worker. His friends make him jokes, while Mario lives in the myth of Enrico Berlinguer, trusting into indifference. Mario is very attached to his mother, because he has the Oedipus complex, and when he loses a game of poker with a friend, this tells Mario about having sex with his mother: this is the penalty cause of the game. Mario is disgusted, but gradually he falls in love with his mother, who however rejects him and prefers to go to bed exactly with the friend who offered to Mario the cruel bet. So Mario finds his friend as a stepfather.

Cast

• Roberto Benigni: Mario Cioni
• Alida Valli: La Mamma
• Carlo Monni: Bozzone
• Mario Pachi: Gnorante

References

External links

• Berlinguer, I Love You at IMDb
• Berlinguer, I Love You at Rotten Tomatoes

Linda Brodo, Stefano Brugnolo, Modernity degraded of the peripheries: an analysis of «Berlinguer, ti voglio bene», in "Intersezioni" 3/2014, pp. 473–498, Il Mulino.

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