An angel in New York

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Movie
German title An angel in New York
Original title Un Angelo in New York
Country of production Italy , Germany
original language English
Publishing year 1996
length 90 minutes
Rod
Director Vinicius Mainardi
Fabrizio Laurenti
script Frank Cottrell Boyce
in association with
James II Carrington
production Gianni Sarago
music Pino Donaggio
Paolo Steffan
camera Walter Gregg
cut Cecilia Zanuso
occupation

An Angel in New York (original title: Un Angelo a New York ) is a children's and family film produced for television in 1996 by the directors Vinicius Mainardi and Fabrizio Laurenti. Grandfather Enzo is played by Giancarlo Giannini , his granddaughter Laura by Tina Majorino .

The script is based on a story by Sandro Parenzo.

action

The story takes place on Christmas Eve in New York . Her Italian grandfather's first visit to New York leads a ten-year-old girl unexpectedly on an adventure full of Christmas magic:

Grandfather Enzo travels to New York for the first time to visit his son and his family. He packs a doll for his granddaughter Laura, who has never been seen personally. Before he leaves, he has another conversation with his late wife in the cemetery.

Laura, a typical American consumer-oriented child, picks up her grandfather and her father from Grand Central train station. An incident occurs here when Santa Claus, who is present there, who is warmly greeted and embraced by Enzo, collapses motionless next to the old man and lies there. It looks like he's dead. Enzo is stunned by the ignorance of the people; none of the passers-by wants to have anything to do with the person lying on the ground. Some children even accuse Enzo of killing Santa Claus.

Laura's father wants to get help, which is more difficult than he thought and so he stays away until Grandfather Enzo loses patience and heaves motionless Santa Claus into a taxi and takes him to another place. Laura is forced to join the grandfather. Both of them have completely lost sight of their father.

Grandfather Enzo feels a need to bring Santa Claus to a place where he will be treated humanely and buried with dignity, which seems to be a difficult undertaking in the cold forbidding city. American indifference is profoundly alien to the warm-hearted Italian; he is uncomfortable with the anonymity of the big city. For grandfather and granddaughter, an adventurous odyssey begins through New York, which is decorated for Christmas, and they always have Santa Claus with them in a wheelchair they thankfully got.

Grandfather Enzo and Laura experience strange things together and meet unusual people. The area in which she ends up is not only foreign to her grandfather, but also to Laura, everything seems somehow unreal. In these hours, however, something also happens that was not to be expected, Laura and her grandfather are getting closer and closer, a wonderful friendship begins. But what about Santa Claus. Is he really dead?

Laura's parents, who fell out over the disappearance of their daughter, are separately looking for their child. Almost at the same time they run into Laura and grandfather. Laura's mother, however, insists that Laura join her in the waiting taxi and leaves her husband and his father behind. A few more things happened that night that can hardly be explained. Laura changed that night, she is no longer the girl whose thoughts only revolved around herself. And it seems as if Santa Claus and Grandfather are somehow one person, because in the end it is the grandfather who fell asleep in the wheelchair and gets a kiss from his granddaughter, while Santa Claus is nowhere to be seen.

production

It is a production by Videa in collaboration with Sud Ovest Records for the television station Rai - Radiotelevisione Italiana -Premium.

reception

publication

The film was first seen on December 12, 1996 in Italy, in Germany it was shown on December 6, 1997 on the children's channel . Its international title is New York Crossing .

criticism

Cinema's verdict was tight: "Brav-bizarre story."

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ An angel in New York see cinema.de (with 5 film images). Retrieved March 14, 2018.