Libera, amore mio (Libera, My Love). 1975. Italy. Directed by Mauro Bolognini. Screenplay by Bolognini, Luciano Vincenzoni, Nicola Badalucco. With Claudia Cardinale, Bruno Cirino, Adolfo Celi. Courtesy Surf Films. In Italian; English subtitles. 110 min.
Having been imprisoned for her Marxist sympathies and acts of resistance during World War II, wife and mother Claudia Cardinale is disillusioned to discover one-time Fascists leading the newly democratic and prosperous country with impunity. During the 1970s, one of modern Italian history’s most politically violent decades, Mauro Bolognini’s antifascist period drama was considered so provocative that its theatrical release was delayed by two years.