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\nRobert De Niro is jetting into Rome to be on hand Monday to introduce the restored version of Bernardo Bertolucci\u2018s \u201cNovecento,\u201d marking the 50th anniversary of the historical epic shot in 1976.<\/p>\n

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\n\tBesides De Niro, the film\u2019s stellar cast also comprised G\u00e9rard Depardieu, Burt Lancaster, Dominique Sanda and Donald Sutherland.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe special two-part screening, being held in Piazza San Cosimato in Rome\u2019s Trastevere neighborhood, is the grand finale of the Eternal City\u2019s Il Cinema in Piazza summer screenings series. The event is run by Fondazione Piccolo America, the feisty group of young film buffs headed by Valerio Carocci that have been shaking things up for years after occupying the nearby shuttered Cinema America movie theater.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe event is being billed as a tribute to Rome and to Bertolucci, who organizers said in a statement was among the first \u201cto support the fight to defend the Italian capital\u2019s cultural spaces\u201d along with fellow directors Ettore Scola, Ugo Gregoretti and Francesco Rosi. Bertolucci, who was a Piccolo America supporter, died at 77 in 2018.<\/p>\n

\n\tDe Niro, 82, is scheduled to take part in an onstage conversation with Carocci and New York-based journalist and academic Antonio Monda, who is also a former Rome Film Festival chief.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cNovecento\u201d depicts half a century of Italian history through the parallel lives of two childhood friends born on the same day in 1900 in the central Italian Emilia Romagna region countryside: Alfredo, heir to a wealthy landowning family (played by De Niro), and Olmo, a Communist farm laborer\u2019s son (Depardieu). Thousands of extras were also employed by the production, some of whom were real farm laborers.<\/p>\n

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\n\tBertolucci, in a 2011 interview with Variety<\/em>, recalled that \u201cputting together peasants from Emilia with Hollywood actors was the height of transgression at that time.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tParamount, however, seemed to care less about Bertolucci\u2019s breaking taboos than about the length of the film \u2014\u00a0five hours and 20 minutes \u2014 which soon became part of an acrimonious battle. In solidarity, he has jokingly recounted, Francis Ford Coppola promised to make \u201cApocalypse Now\u201d one-minute longer than \u201cNovecento,\u201d which, of course, he did not manage to do; not even in the redux version.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe restoration of \u201cNovecento\u201d was carried out by 20th Century Fox, Paramount Pictures, Istituto Luce-Cinecitt\u00e0 and Bologna\u2019s Cineteca di Bologna archives, in collaboration with producer Alberto Grimaldi and with the support of Massimo Sordella at Bologna\u2019s L\u2019Immagine Ritrovata laboratory, under the supervision of Bertolucci and ace cinematographer Vittorio Storaro.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe first part of \u201cNovecento\u201d will screen in Piazza San Cosimato on July 13. The second part will screen on July 14, concluding the festival.<\/p>\n

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