Libera, My Love! - Libera, amore mio! (1973 - Mauro Bolognini)

Title: Libera, My Love! - Libera, amore mio! Year: 1973 Director: Mauro Bolognini Writer: Nicola Badalucco, Mauro Bolognini, Luciano Vincenzoni Actors: Claudia Cardinale, Bruno Cirino, Adolfo Celi Runtime: 1hr 50min Released: 1975 (due to censorship) Plot: The story of the aptly named Libera Amore Anarchia, an indominable anti-fascist and inspirational Italian anarchist mother of two — Carlo and Anna — played by Claudia Cardinale in what was, probably, one of her finest roles. ‘Libera, amore mio!’ encompasses the twenty years or so of the rise and transition of Italian fascism — from the mid-1920s to April 1945 — to Christian Democracy through the eyes of Libera, daughter of her equally refractory anarchist father, Felice Valente, played by the marvellous Adolfo Celli. (Anyone remember him as Rodrigo Borgia in the 1981 TV mini-series The Borgias?) Uncowed by fascist brutality, Libera, consistently flaunts her opposition to Mussolini’s regime by wearing a scarlet dress, a direct