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Bread and Chocolate (1973)

Director: Franco Brusati

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From Time Out Film Guide

Production-line Italian comedy only slightly helped by the tragi-comic skills of Nino Manfredi, as a guest-worker in oh-so-clean Switzerland desperately trying to break into the Aryan leisure culture. Brusati fatally miscalculates this comedy of failure, despising his protagonist, confusing pathos with camp. Almost as sad, the sublime Karina is thrown away in a bland Euro cameo (as a Greek exile on the run). Good acting, dreadful everything else.

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Cast & crew

Director: Franco Brusati

Producer: Maurizio Lodi-Fé

Cast: Nino Manfredi, Anna Karina, Johnny Dorelli, Paolo Turco, Ugo D'Alessio full cast

Genre(s): Comedy

Duration: 112 mins


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