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The Best of Youth in Italian), is a 6 hour film directed by Marco Tullio Giordana that originally aired in Italy in 2003 on RAI, the state television channel, in four 90 minute parts. The film chronicles the life of an Italian family, the Caratis, but focuses primarily on two brothers, Matteo (Alessio Boni) and Nicola, (Luigi Lo Cascio), documenting their journey from the prime of their wild youth in the mid-1960s counter-culture, to parenthood and retirement in the early 2000's. The film was a sensation in Italy, winning many local awards, and was also the recipient of the prestigious award at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival.

Giordana, who directed a film about the suspicious circumstances surrounding the death of poet and director Pier Paolo Pasolini, again paid tribute to the director, as the title of the epic comes from a Pasolini poem.

is a family saga set in Rome from 1966 through 2003 that details the lives of two brothers, Nicola and Matteo Carati, who go their separate ways after attempting to rescue a young girl, Giorgia (Jasmine Trinca), from an abusive sanitarium. Set against the backdrop of contemporary Italian history, the film follows the characters through such major historical incidents as the flooding of Florence in 1966, the terrorist activities of the Red Brigades, mental asylum reforms, the student protests of 1968, Italy's elimination from the 1966 World Cup at the hands of Korea and its subsequent victory in 1982, and Tangentopoli and the consequent death of anti-mob judge Giovanni Falcone.