Title: Russians speaking Italian, with English subtitles
Product review: Hollywood has never done Rand justice. Gary Cooper was a wooden Howard Roark in King Vidor's "The Fountainhead", and Rand's own adapted screenplay left viewers scratching their heads about her "message". The recent "Passion of Ayn Rand" is just a cheap ad hominum attack. This film breathes life into her work. The actors are physically perfect, passionate instead of talky. Alida Valli is gorgeous in the lead role. The smokey black and white is perfect for 1917 Russia, and the production quality rivals Hollywood's best for that era. It's hard to believe this film was essentially a bootleg, made witout the authorization or cooperation of the book's author. When Rand saw the "discovered" print in the early 1980's, she loved it.
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