UW Cinematheque: New Italian Restorations
Bread and Chocolate | Italy | 1974 | DCP | 100 min. | Italian with English subtitles Director: Franco Brusati
Event Details
Date
Friday, March 18, 2016
Time
7:30 p.m.
Location
4070 Vilas Hall
Description
Cast: Nino Manfredi, Anna Karina, Johnny Dorelli
The marvelous comic actor Manfredi stars as a working-class Italian who looks for employment in Switzerland, working a series of sometimes humiliating menial jobs in the hopes that he can one day send for his wife and children. One of the great Italian films of the 1970s. Bread and Chocolate finds the perfect balance between the dramatic and the comic. A new restoration from the Cineteca di Bologna will be shown.
The marvelous comic actor Manfredi stars as a working-class Italian who looks for employment in Switzerland, working a series of sometimes humiliating menial jobs in the hopes that he can one day send for his wife and children. One of the great Italian films of the 1970s. Bread and Chocolate finds the perfect balance between the dramatic and the comic. A new restoration from the Cineteca di Bologna will be shown.
Cost
Free
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