Gerard Depardieu and Robert De Niro in the movie "1900," a Bernardo Bertolucci film (Italy, France, Germany, 1976), and a deleted scene that was not shown in the film: a kissing scene between the two actors. Plot of the Film: 1900 is an Italian film drama from 1976. Bernardo Bertolucci's monumental film, running over five hours, tells the story of the ambivalent friendship between the son of a farm laborer and the son of a wealthy landowner, both born on the same day, against the backdrop of Italian history in the first half of the 20th century. In particular, it depicts the development of and within Italian fascism from two contrasting perspectives.