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While the Italian political crisis was erupting, the politicians in France last week were heading for their own donnybrook. On the one side, a rift in the painfully constructed union of the left widened dramatically, with the Communists denouncing their Socialist partners. On the other, the faltering government of Premier Raymond Barre was faced with a sharpening hostility between supporters of Barre's boss, President Valery Giscard d'Estaing, and Paris Mayor Jacques Chirac, who had been Premier himself before he quit to reorganize the Gaullist party. What was once anticipated to be a clear-cut duel between...
...time formally to open the campaign for the forthcoming elections, and the left was in utter disarray. In 1972 the Communists and Socialists had combined forces to create a "common program" of ideas with which they would rule France together. Not six months ago, in fact, French pollsters had predicted an electoral victory of the left that would have given President Giscard the unhappy prospect of appointing a Socialist as his Premier and seeing Communists in the Cabinet. But a serious political falling-out between Communist Boss Georges Marchais and Socialist Party Leader Francois Mitterrand seemed to sink that possibility...
...hammer home his displeasure with the Socialists, Marchais unveiled a strategy that if pursued to the end would virtually assure the left of defeat in March. In the first round of voting, on March 12, the electorate chooses its favored candidates in an elimination contest. In the second, or runoff, round, held a week later, the custom among allied parties, left or right, requires the losing side to support the first-round winner. Thus if a Socialist candidate scored higher in Round 1, he would receive Communist support in Round 2. But Marchais decreed that the Communists would refuse...
From the first, their lives are complicated by the other characters. Their families make demands on them as children, and when they grow up there are the peasants who look to Depardieu, a fierce socialist, for leadership, and the landlords and fascists who look to De Niro to support their efforts to subdue the peasants. There are women, a dedicated socialist and a half made dilettante. And of course, there are the historical forces, requiring De Niro to choose between his socialism and his position as a landlord. 1900 unfolds on many levels; it is hard to keep up with...
...basically crushed when the Soviet tanks rolled into Prague in 1968; most of the top directors either emigrated or were thrown in jail. Quite a few of the films feature amateur actors, and they're all concerned with how ordinary people deal with life and the bureaucracy in a socialist state--generally the way you're meeting reading period--with hope, pathos, and humor...