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‘The Great Ambition,’ Biopic About Italy’s Late Communist Party Leader Enrico Berlinguer, Scores International Sales (EXCLUSIVE)


'The Great Ambition' biopic of Italy's late Communist Party leader Enrico Berlinguer has been sold widely by Fandango Sales.

“He was the Secretary in the 1970s of the most important Communist party in the western world, with over 1,700,000 card-holding members and more than 12 million voters, united by the great ambition of achieving socialism within a democracy.” Fandango has now sold “The Great Ambition” to France (Nour), Spain (Filmin), Portugal (Risi), Switzerland (Cineworx), Brazil (Imovision), Greece (Weirdwave), Australia/New Zealand (Palace), Bulgaria (TBD), and former Yugoslavia (McF Megacom). “The film depicts the interference of both the Soviet Union and the U.S. in a democratic attempt to bring the largest political party in the West to power,” she said.

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