Metello

Name: Metello
Director: Mauro Bolognini
Released: 1970

Mauro Bolognini

working-class struggle anarchism and political activism coming of age love and marriage family dysfunction

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Synopsis

The story of a young man of the working class, who has grown up practically an orphan due to his father’s repeated jailings for anarchistic activism. Struggling with life in 19th-century Italy, Metello Salani is determined to change his situation for the better - but love, marriage and politics complicate things considerably...