Seminar: 19 January 2009 (Chair: Dr Federica Mazzara, more ... )
Italian Cinema of Migration
A screening and discussion of
Pane e cioccolata : Bread and Chocolate (dir. Franco Brusati, 1973)
Starring Nino Manfredi and Anna Karina.
Pane e cioccolata is a film that reminds us that before being a destination country for many immigrants, Italy was a country of emigration.
The film portraits one specific form of emigration that saw millions of Italians migrating to other European countries, especially between the ‘60s and ‘80s.
Nino Garofalo, the main character of this film, is an immigrant worker from southern Italy struggling to make a life in the difficult Teutonic world of Switzerland. This Chaplinesque character finds himself forced into ever more degrading situations, but he never gives up and remains hopeful. A comic portrait of an intense man desperately trying to fit in to a society he doesn't seem suited for. This drama-comedy delivers laugh while making a valid statements about class and injustice.
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