Bread and Chocolate (1974)
- Original title
- Pane e cioccolata
- Directed by
- Franco Brusati
- Genre
- comedy film, comedy drama
- Country
- Italy
- Runtime
- 1h 55m
- Rating
- 7.2 of 10 from 100 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
An Italian man tries to build a new life in Switzerland but runs into constant setbacks. He faces prejudice, loneliness, and failed attempts to fit in with the Swiss way of life.
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What happens
Bread and Chocolate (Italian: Pane e cioccolata) is a 1974 Italian comedy-drama film directed by Franco Brusati. This film chronicles the misadventures of an Italian immigrant to Switzerland and is representative of the commedia all'italiana film genre. In 2008, the film was included on the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage’s 100 Italian films to be saved, a list of 100 films that "have changed the collective memory of the country between 1942 and 1978." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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