Once Upon A Time In America

Italia, USA, 1984 , 255 min.

Director: Sergio Leone

Cast: Robert De Niro, James Woods, Elizabeth McGovern, Treat Williams.

Special  festival event  — the first time in Latvia you will be able to watch the original , extended director сut version of the film  Once Upon a Time in America by  Sergio Leone .

This powerful, majestic film featuring  grandiose music by Ennio Morricone ,  is still considered an unsurpassed masterpiece of its genre, with the intriguing, ambiguous ending causing controversy and bewilderment of the audience.

Spanning four decades,  film tells the story of David “Noodles” Aaronson and his Jewish pals, chronicling their childhoods on New York’s Lower East Side in the 1920s, through their gangster careers in the 1930s, and culminating in Noodles’  1968 return to New York from self-imposed exile, at which time he learns the truth about the fate of his friends and  must once again confront of his past, the ghosts, the nightmareand regrets of his old life.

  “Once Upon a Time in America” is a tremendous work that captures the animating ambition and sorrow at the heart of the American Dream.  

Sergio Leone's epic crime drama is visually stunning, stylistically bold, and emotionally haunting, and filled with great performances from the likes of Robert De Niro and James Woods.

Sergio Leone explores the seamiest byways of urban Americana through the story of two gangsters who start their partnership as Brooklyn kids in 1921 and tragically end it in the late '60s.

«When Sergio Leone made Once Upon a Time in America, it was a grandiose event. 

Recently, with the help of the Leone family, several lost scenes of the film have been brought back. The extraordinary restoration of the film was a collaboration involving the Cineteca di Bologna, L’Immagine Ritrovata, and the Film Foundation, with funding from Gucci.

The much longer cut of the film restored its extraordinary Proustian structure that Leone felt to be crucial to his grand 20th-century canvas. A great film just became so much greater.» Martin Scorsese

 Original Language: English

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