I ragazzi di via Panisperna is an Italian movie by director Gianni Amelio, telling the enthusiasms, fears, joys and disappointments of the life of a well-known group of boys fond of physics and mathematics, who just made history as the Via Panisperna boys. The story is inspired by a real life fact and set in the Thirties when, at the Institute of Physics of Via Panisperna, in Rome, physicist Enrico Fermi managed to involve a group of brilliant young students—Emilio, Bruno, Edoardo and Ettore —forming a working group committed to scientific research who would achieve great... discoveries in the field of nuclear physics. These young men's lives—full of anxieties as well as enthusiasms—are related with pathos and sensitiveness, mainly looking at their private side, with their youthful energies, but also their fears and weakness.
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| Release date: | 1989 |
| Directed by: | Gianni Amelio |
| Runtime: | 123 Minutes |
| Music by: | Riz Ortolani |