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Language
Italiano
Description
Salvatore is a very poor farmer and a widower who decides to emigrate to the U.S. with all his family, including his old mother. Before they embark, they meet Lucy. She is a British woman who wants to go back to the States. Lucy, or Luce as Salvatore calls her, needs to marry someone before she arrives at Ellis Island in New York. Salvatore accepts her proposal. Once they arrive in Ellis Island they spend the quarantine period trying to pass the examinations...
Language
Italiano
Description
A harried filmmaker tries to juggle the demands of her latest movie with a personal life in shambles. The star of her film, a bombastic American actor imported for the production, presents nothing but headaches and her crew is close to mutiny. Away from the shoot, Margherita tries to hold her life together as her mother's illness progresses and her teenage daughter grows ever more distant.
Series
Criterion collection volume 498
Language
Italiano
Description
A series of six vignettes, each vignette showing the story of one Allied soldier and his interactions with the Italian people he meets, during and after the liberation of Italy.
7) Without pity
Language
Italiano
Description
As World War II ends, some African-American soldiers refuse to abandon northern Italy to return to the United States, due to the racial intolerance there, deserting instead. One soldier, Jerry, falls in love with Angela, a local girl fallen on hard times after the war.
8) Tony Driver
Language
Italiano
Description
One day, Pasquale decides to change his name to Tony. In the mid-60s, at the age of nine, he crossed the ocean from Italy to the United States and grew up as a real American, hot dogs and rockabilly included. Now a taxi driver in Yuma, Arizona, he's arrested because of his side hustle: smuggling illegal immigrants across the Mexican border into the USA. He is therefore forced to make a choice: jail in Arizona or deportation to Italy. Once back in...
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