Solino
Director: Fatih Akin, Germany, 2002, 124min.
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In the sixties Romano Amato, his wife Rosa and their two sons Giancarlo and Gigi emigrate from Solino in Italy to Duisburg in the Ruhr area and establish the first Pizza restaurant in town. Their business emerges well and both children get used to Germany. 10 years later the brothers fall in love with the same woman; they break tie with each other in anger and Gigi returns to Solino with his mother. A decade later both meet again and have a retrospect on their lives.
Familie Villano kehrt nicht zurück (Family Villano doesn`t return)
Director: Hans Andreas Guttner, Germany, 1981, 110min.
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The everyday life of an extended Italian family, which decided to stay in Germany after several home comings to Italy. The movie depicts the changes of the traditional Italian way of life of the family caused by confrontations with the German society.
Radiografia della miseria (Radiography of the misery)
Director: Piero Nelli, Italy, 1967, 16min., it. oF
The total impoverishment of the rural population in Sicily in the 60s and the almost medieval conditions of living force particularly the young men to emigrate. The ancients and invalids, the women and children stay back in the desolate villages.
Emigrazione 68: Italia oltre confine
Director: Luigi PerelliItaly, 1968, 32min., it. oF
The film describes the drama of the exile of millions of Italians and their conditions of living and working in North Europe.
Palermo - Wolfsburg
Director: Werner Schroeter, Germany 1980, 177min.
A young Sicilian men emigrates to Wolfsburg to find work at Volkswagen Factory; he is confronted with exploitation, loneliness and incomprehension.
Pane e cioccolata (Bread and chocolate)
Director: Franco Brusati, Italien, 1973, 115min., it. oF
In the desperate attempt to solve his financial problems Nini Garofano emigrates to Switzerland. But the stay and the work permit are inseparably affiliated with each other. Although Nino is keen to integrate into the exclusive Swiss reality, he gets inescapably into conflict with the state.
Trevico– Torino… Viaggio nel Fiat-nam
Director: Ettore Scola, Italy, 1973, 101min.
A young worker emigrates from the south (Trevico) to Turin to work at Fiat. There he realizes that the working migrants from the south were discriminated.
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