MOVIE “Lamerica” Italian with English Subtitles > 7pm on 28th June 2018

Venue : Italian Embassy Cultural Institute, 50-E, Chandragupta Marg, Chanakyapuri

Time : 7:00 pm Add to Calendar 28/06/2018 19:00 28/06/2018 20:56 Asia/Kolkata MOVIE “Lamerica” Italian with English Subtitles Event Page : https://www.delhievents.com/2018/06/movie-lamerica-italian-chanakyapuri.html Italian Cultural Institute, 50-E, Chandragupta Marg (entry from Nyaya Marg), Chanakyapuri, New Delhi - 21 DD/MM/YYYY

Duration : 1 hour 56 mins.

Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served Basis)
Note : 
- For security reasons please show your valid Photo Identity Card.
- Entry to the Cine-club will be allowed only for 15 minutes after the commencement of the film with no exception whatsoever.

Venue : Italian Cultural Institute, 50-E, Chandragupta Marg (entry from Nyaya Marg), Chanakyapuri, New Delhi - 21
Landmark : Entry from Nyaya Marg
Venue Info : About | Map | Nearest Metro Station - 'Lok Kalyan Marg (previously 'Race Course')(Yellow Line)'
Area : Chanakyapuri Events

Event Description : MOVIE “Lamerica” Italian with English Subtitles

Summary: The film Lamerica is a story of two men caught up in the startup of a scam shoe company. The main characters Gino and Spiro (later discovered to be Michele), go on an adventure of misfortune. Gino is a young man originally from Sicily who is involved in a company that is trying to “give every Albanian good shoes,” but it truly is a scam. Mr. Fiore (Gino’s boss) and Gino were unsatisfied with the officials that were originally set up to run the company. With the help of an Albanian middleman, they decided to find their own candidate who would be a “man of straw”, meaning he would do what they say. Spiro, or Michele, was the old man that the company hired to be their Albanian figurehead “chairman” of the company. We later learn that Spiro was a Sicilian named Michele and the problems ensued.

This film compares and contrasts the old Italian man and the young Italian man and their seemingly varying identities as two men. The major contrast between the two is not the country in which they are from, but the time period in which they lived. Spiro is from the “old” Italy, where fascism and a hard life was all he knew, and Gino is from the “new” boom years where the emphasis is on money and materialistic items. This difference is substantially indicated throughout the film. This adventure unravels Spiro's tragic personal history and allows Gino to become intimately acquainted with the full extent of Albanian poverty. This Albanian poverty is a mirror of how Italy used to be during Spiro's time. Gino's car tires are stolen, while the fancy shoes he gave Spiro are also stolen by children. Gino and Spiro follow a group of Albanians who are headed for Italy in search for a better life, first by truck and later by ship. The Albanian exodus parallels that of Italians for the United States, which is where Spiro believes that they are heading.

Director: Gianni Amelio

Genre: Drama

Cast: Enrico Lo Verso, Michele Placido, Piro Milkani, Carmelo Di Mazzarelli, Elida Janushi

Awards:
1994 European Film Awards – "Best Film"
1994 Venice Film Festival – 4 Awards including "Best Director"
1995 São Paulo International Film Festival – "Critics Award"
1995 David di Donatello: Best Cinematography, Best Score, Best Sound
1995 Nastro d'Argento: Best Director, Best Cinematography
1995 Goya Awards – Best European Film

Wikipedia : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamerica  

Video Clip : youtu.be/xagdflbbfgs

Reviews : www.rottentomatoes.com/m/lamerica

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