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' (''Via Panisperna Boys'') is an Italian movie by director Gianni Amelio, telling the enthusiasms, fears, joys and disappointments of the (private and professional) life of a well-known group of young men fond of
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, who just made history as the '' Via Panisperna boys''. The movie derives from a 3-hour long TV movie, which was produced and broadcast in two parts by RAI in 1990.


Plot

The story is inspired by a real life fact and set in the 1930s when, at the Institute of Physics of Via Panisperna, in
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, physicist
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managed to involve a group of brilliant young students— Emilio,
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(all of whom became famous scientists)—forming a working group committed to scientific research who would achieve great discoveries in the field of
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. These young men's lives—full of anxieties as well as enthusiasms—are related with pathos and sensitiveness, mainly looking at their private side, with their youthful energies, but also their fears and weakness. The story has among the main themes the relationship between Enrico and Ettore, the former becoming both a sort of father and of elder brother to Ettore, with the typical disputes (misunderstandings hiding affection) happening in a family. Unfortunately, the fascist political regime, the racial laws, Ettore's disappearance into nowhere (suspicious death or suicide, it will never be known)—he who already realized how their exciting discoveries could become powerful destruction weapons in wrong hands (attentively see the scene set in Sicilian fields)—all proves to be more decisive than the love for physics which had drawn them together so much and, finally, the boys turn different ways.


Cast

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* Michele Melega as Franco, assistant of Fermi * Giovanni Romani as Edoardo Amaldi *
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*Giorgio Dal Piaz as Bruno Pontecorvo *
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as Laura, wife of Fermi * Cristina Marsillach as cousin of Majorana *
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* Virna Lisi as mother of Majorana *
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as Ginestra, lover of Amaldi *
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as Francese


See also

* Via Panisperna boys, the group of young men that gathered around
Enrico Fermi Enrico Fermi (; 29 September 1901 – 28 November 1954) was an Italian (later naturalized American) physicist and the creator of the world's first nuclear reactor, the Chicago Pile-1. He has been called the "architect of the nuclear age" an ...
in real life. *
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* Gianni Amelio


External links

* 1989 films 1989 drama films Italian drama films Films set in Italy Films set in Rome 1980s Italian-language films Films directed by Gianni Amelio Films scored by Riz Ortolani Films with screenplays by Vincenzo Cerami Films about nuclear war and weapons Biographical films about scientists Films set in the 1930s Enrico Fermi 1980s Italian films {{1980s-Italy-film-stub