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Ayn Rand - WE THE LIVING
starring: Rossano Brazzi, Alida Valli, Fosco Giachetti, Goffredo Allesandrini
directed by: Goffredo Allesandrini

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EAN: 0790451101639
Format: Box set, Black & White, Director's Cut, Full length, Restored, Subtitled, NTSC
Number Of Items: 2
Release Date: May 28, 1994
Running Time: 174 minutes
Sales Rank: 6159

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Description:
Beautiful, strong-willed Kira (Alida Valli) is torn between two men (Rossano Brazzi and Fosco Giachetti) while she courageously defies the authoritarian rule of post-revolutionary Russia. Her passionate struggle for the right to her own life burns at the core of WE THE LIVING.

A Scalera Films Production/Directed by Goffredo Allessandrini/From the novel by Ayn Rand/Released by Duncan Scott Productions, Inc. 174 Minutes/Black & White/In Italian with English subtitles. Copyright 1994 - Duncan Scott Productions, Inc.

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- socialists/communists--Rand busts you...
Yes. Absolutely. You're busted by this film (you know whom you are) and you STILL will not admit it. Classic.

The-Powers-That-Be (or think that they "Be", incorrectly, I must add) in Hollywood should produce this movie in English.

There is a DEMAND for it. It would sell. Yep.

Yet the hypocritical, "tell-us-what-we-should-think" and "tell-us-what-we-should-do" people in Hollywood will never produce this in English.

Oh, no, they will not, for they are long-time admirers of socialism/communism. Fidel and Hugo Chavez are their heroes. Long live an economic system--socialism/communism--that has failed so often in history!!

Thankfully, not all of the actors and actresses in Hollywood are communists that fall down and worship ... Read More

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- Proof that even Ayn Rand novels can be made into great films....
I remember finding a copy of this film, and I really liked it. Its history is as fascinating as the film itself. For those who don't know, this is an unauthorized version of Ayn Rand's novel We The Living. It was made in 1942 under Mussolini's rule. It had the full approval of the government, at least when it was being made. When the film was shown to the censor boards, it was banned. But somehow Mussolini saw it himself, and he loved it, so it was approved and was shown around Italy. But then Mussolini reversed himself, because the film was as much anti-authoritarian as it was anti-Communist. It disappeared for decades, but eventually it was rediscovered, and even Ayn Rand loved the film (and she wasn't easy to please).

The film is remarkable in that it makes Rand's characters ... Read More

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- Despite Alyssa Anne Rosenbaum's phoney beliefs, not a bad...
Italian import written by failed playwright
'Ayn Rand' [Atlas Strugged, et, al], played
in two parts, or acts. Beware the Ayn Rand
Collectivist Cult though...

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- One of the few film versions of Ayn Rand's maxim that "You cannot enslave man's mind. You can only destroy it."
"What's a citizen? Only a brick and of no use unless cemented to other bricks just like it"? As one character lectures another herein: "why do you think you are entitled to your own thoughts...against those of the majority of the Collective?" After all, as a Bolshevik explains, "...no external enemy...is as dangerous to us as the internal enemy of dissension within our own ranks. On the jacket of the book on which this film is based appears the following: "We the Living demonstrates the supreme value of a human life and the evil of those who claim the right to sacrifice it." There's your life. You begin it feeling that it's something so precious & rare, so beautiful that it's like a sacred treasure." But "one man means nothing in the face of the mighty Proletarian Collective," the Bolsheviks ... Read More

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- Great, but NOT THE COMPLETE FILM(S)!
Goffredo Alessandrini's unauthorized 1942 version of Ayn Rand's novel "We the Living" appeared in Fascist Italy in two separate parts: NOI VIVI and ADDIO, KIRA. They are essentially one film. It was the grim story of post-revolutionary Russia, the forced collectivization of the economy and the brutal suppression of human rights, all told from the viewpoint of one woman, Kira. Ayn Rand's novel was autobiographical and was essentially a diatribe against the loss of individuality in totalitarian societies.

The film attracted a sizable audience in Italy. The Fascist government saw the film(s) as a condemnation of Soviet misery but when it became aware that the movie(s) implied a condemnation of all totalitarian states, left and right, it withdrew them from distribution.

They were ... Read More

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