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Director: Fatih Akin
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From Time Out Film Guide
This bitter-sweet family saga is pitched between the nostalgia of Cinema Paradiso and the melancholia of Once Upon a Time in America. The opening section, with the Amato family relocating to Germany in the mid-'60s to set up a pizzeria, is the most sickly, with a cutie-pie young protagonist and too many polkas squeezed out as glue for the piecemeal scene setting. But momentum builds, and come the '70s, with budding film-maker Gigi and and his jealous brother Giancarlo now free-living students, their accumulation of petty slights and betrayals becomes genuinely compelling. The opposition of bustling Germany and laidback Italy is used as a framework for the differences of character and ethics that run down the middle of the family.Author: NB
Cast & crew
Director: Fatih Akin
Producer: Ralph Schwingel, Stefan Schubert, Hejo Emons
Cast: Christian Tasche, Barnaby Metschurat, Tiziana Lodato, Antonella Attil, Moritz Bleibtreu, Annika Schmitz, Patrycia Ziolkowska, Nicola Cutrignelli, Michele Ranieri, Gigi Savoia, Vincent Schiavelli full cast
Rated: 15
Duration: 120 mins
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