Solino
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Solino |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German , Italian |
| Publishing year | 2002 |
| length | 124 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 12 JMK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Fatih Akin |
| script | Ruth Toma |
| production |
Hejo Emons , Stefan Schubert , Ralph Schwingel |
| music | Jannos Eolou |
| camera | Rainer Klausmann |
| cut | Andrew Bird |
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Solino is a film by director Fatih Akin from 2002. It is about the Italian family Amato, who emigrated from southern Italy to Germany in the Ruhr area . The film is set between 1964 and 1984 and shows the fate of the family every ten years. It is Fatih Akin's first film that he did not write the script himself. The subtitle on the movie poster reads "Brothers are always the closest friends ... and the bitterest rivals".
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Romano Amato and his wife Rosa heard about the economic miracle in Germany. With their little sons Gigi and Giancarlo they come to Duisburg in 1964 and hope for a better life there. Together they open a pizzeria with the name of their home village Solino . The younger Gigi befriends Mr. Klasen, the owner of the neighboring photo shop, and when a film team filming a film nearby is entertaining their parents for a few days, he discovers his passion for photography and film. Giancarlo, more of a daredevil, however, vies for more attention from their mutual friend Jo.
Ten years later, Gigi, Giancarlo and Jo rent an apartment together after falling out with their father. Gigi and Jo are now a couple. While Giancarlo is hanging out with shady guys, Gigi still wants to make films. He even manages to be proposed for the Ruhr Film Festival with a documentary . When Rosa catches her husband red-handed with another woman, she moves into the flat with her sons. Because of all the work in the pizzeria, she always feels very exhausted and then learns from her doctor that she has incurable leukemia . She wants to go back to Solino immediately. Gigi doesn't have the heart to leave her alone and accompanies her to Italy. Over the phone, he found out there that his film was to be shown at the Ruhr Film Festival and made an appointment with his brother that he would take care of his mother for as long. However, Giancarlo does not come to Solino, but receives the trophy at the Ruhr Film Festival and pretends to be his brother. Gigi finds out about it in the newspaper and angrily travels to Duisburg. There he catches Giancarlo in bed with Jo, and the two brothers separate in a fraternal dispute. Since Giancarlo doesn't want to look after his mother either, Gigi has no choice but to go back to Solino. There he gets closer to Ada, a childhood friend. The two open an open-air cinema where Gigi shows his films.
Ten years later, Ada and Gigi get married, and even Giancarlo comes back to Solino for the first time. Only the father refuses to come to the wedding party because he doesn't want to embarrass himself in front of his village.
Emergence
Ruth Toma had written a script about Italian immigrants in Germany, to which the producer Ralph Schwingel had acquired an option. Schwingel wanted to get the opinion of someone directly affected by immigration on the book and gave it to the German-Turkish Fatih Akin to read. After initial skepticism, he was so taken with Tomas' work that he absolutely wanted to make the film himself, whereby Akin then had to convince both Schwingel and Toma that he, who had previously only worked from his own scripts, was the right director for the project be.
Reviews
“An entertaining epic arc of pictures, which sometimes lacks persuasive power, since a lot is only asserted and the confrontation with the foreign is not always conveyed convincingly. The tragedy inherent in the characters also tends to be sentimental because of the hesitant staging. Also unfortunate are the mentalities and linguistic timbres leveling synchronization. "
"Despite a few lengths in the middle section and a few unsatisfactory narrative strands, Fatih Akin created a great film based on a great script that touches the audience and whose story carries you away."
“With Solino , Fatih Akin has once again proven how well he can tell stories and create moods. The neorealistic film with partly romantic, partly tragicomic episodes was carefully staged down to the last detail. "
“The film suffers from the simplification of its components. Almost every figure is clearly overdetermined: Gigi has to repeat a dozen times that he wants to make films (the film explains: he is a sensitive, born artist), a dozen times Brother Giancarlo proves his criminal tendencies (the film explains: he is a weak, coarse person), latently pale and tired, the mother suffers from the German cold in both senses (the film explains: she longs for Italy), and so on and so forth. Because the film doesn't believe enough in its characters (and in the reflective ability of the audience), it overdraws them until they become clichés. "
Awards
- Bavarian Film Prize 2003 to Ruth Toma in the category Best Screenplay and to Barnaby Metschurat in the category Best Young Actor
- Nomination for the German Film Prize in the Best Fiction Film category
- Gilde Film Award in silver in the category Best German Film
- The German Film and Media Assessment FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the rating particularly valuable.
Web links
- Solino in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Desert film production
- Solino at filmportal.de