International correspondent
DR. NO | Bond Meets Honey
Italy's Fandango Film Sales has acquired worldwide rights outside Italy to Andrea Segre's "The Great Ambition," a biopic about the late Italian political leader Enrico Berlinguer, who served as secretary of Western Europe's largest communist party in the 1970s.
The film, which is being produced by Rome-based independent film company Vivo film ("Nico, 1988", "Le Quattro Volte"), has been set as previously announced to open the Rome Film Festival.
Elio Germano, who won the top acting prize at Cannes for 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 1976 Italian parliamentary elections.
