The Earth's Most Beloved Son

The Earth's Most Beloved Son

The verdict constitutes a brutal end to all his projects and ideals.

1993110 min7.0 / 10

A bleak, introspective account of an intellectual's destruction by totalitarian oppression, told through confession and memory.

The life-story confession of a prisoner waiting for his trial. Victor Petrini, a promising intellectual in the 1950s and a lecturer in Philosophy is arrested by the repressive secret police, wrongly accused of espionage, and sentenced to prison and forced labor.

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