Golden Door
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Golden Door |
| Original title | Nuovomondo |
| Country of production | Italy , France |
| original language | Italian , English |
| Publishing year | 2006 |
| length | 120 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Emanuele Crialese |
| script | Emanuele Crialese |
| music | Antonio Castrignano |
| camera | Agnes Godard |
| cut | Maryline Monthieux |
| occupation | |
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Golden Door (Original Title: Nuovomondo ) is an Italian film that was shot in 2006 under the direction of Emanuele Crialese . It is about a Sicilian farming family who emigrated to the United States at the beginning of the 20th century.
action
The Mancuso farming family has been cultivating a barren piece of land in Sicily for generations . The monotony is only interrupted by postcards from distant relatives who have already emigrated to the United States . In the widower Salvatore Mancusa, the idea of a land grows in which milk and honey flow and huge fruits flourish. Hoping for a better life, he decided to emigrate to the “new world” with his sons Angelo and Pietro and his mother Donna Fortunata.
The family, who have never left their home village before, spends four arduous weeks on board a ship crammed together with many unknown people in a confined space. Here Salvatore meets the young Englishwoman Lucy, with whom he falls in love. She does not reciprocate his love, but marries him on arrival because she has no chance of immigrating to the USA without a marriage certificate.
Finally they reach Ellis Island , a small island off New York . All arrivals are examined and checked here. But not everyone is allowed to enter the country. Donna Fortunata appears confused and Pietro is thought to be mute. Both of them are threatened with returning to Sicily and Salvatore faces an uncertain future.
background
The background to the film is the wave of Italian emigration to the USA at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. Between 1870 and the First World War, 5 million southern Italians, mostly workers and peasants, emigrated to America. After an arduous ocean crossing, Ellis Island was the first stop for all immigrants. Using various examinations and tests , the New York City immigration authorities decided who was allowed to enter. So were z. B. Sick or illiterate people sent back to their old homeland.
Reviews
“Crialese is a master of abstraction, how he virtuously swings from history to myth, from the thousandth to the individual, from the big picture to the small, to the singular dream of happiness. In its most successful passages, his film tells of this journey as a strange metamorphosis: from ancient times to modern times, from bloody feet to the automobile, from the wind in the mountains to the noise of the cities, from patriarchy to encounters with self-confident women. "
“Emanuele Crialese describes the events in the port and on the ship in an almost documentary way. Like an ethnologist to whom all details are important, he reconstructs the hustle and bustle of the charlatans who want to sell the emigrants miraculous juices and special visas, the oppressive narrowness of the crossing ... But Crialese does not dramatize, he unfolds a double, paradoxical movement: The action is external directed at America, but the inner movement is declining and wants to penetrate the magical, mythical world of the emigrants. "
Awards
In 2006 the film won six prizes at the Venice International Film Festival and in 2007 three David di Donatellos in the categories of Best Costume Design , Best Production Design and Best Visual Effects .
Web links
- Golden Door in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official website of the film
Individual evidence
- ↑ Birgit Glombitza: Migration drama "Golden Door": In the milk bath. In: Der Spiegel . May 31, 2007, accessed September 9, 2017 .
- ^ Rainer Gansera: In the cinema: "Golden Door". Beautiful new world. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . May 19, 2010. Retrieved September 9, 2017 .