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Golden Door (2006)

Golden Door (2006)

Drama Romance History
Release Date: 2006, September 22
Directors: Emanuele Crialese
Countries: France, Italy
Production: Titti Film, Memento Production, ARTE France Cinéma, Respiro
Cast: Vincent Schiavelli, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Aurora Quattrocchi, Vincenzo Amato, Alexia Murray, Paolo De Vita, Filippo Luna, Antonino Bruschetta, Isabella Ragonese, Chiara Gioncardi, Antonio Tallura, Filippo Pucillo

Overview:

The story is set at the beginning of the 20th century in Sicily. Salvatore, a very poor farmer, and a widower, decides to emigrate to the US with all his family, including his old mother. Before they embark, they meet Lucy. She is supposed to be a British lady and wants to come back to the States. Lucy, or Luce as Salvatore calls her, for unknown reasons wants to marry someone before to arrive to Ellis Island in New York. Salvatore accepts the proposal. Once they arrive in Ellis Island they spend the quarantine period trying to pass the examinations to be admitted to the States. Tests are not so simple for poor farmers coming from Sicily. Their destiny is in the hands of the custom officers.

Keywords:

family italy parent child relationship family history peasant ship atlantic ocean restart superstition sicily, italy mute utopia tradition home attachment to nature intelligence test emigration emigrant ocean crossing progress