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Gianfranco Barra, Geoffrey Coppleston, Max Delys, Johnny Dorelli, Umberto Raho ... see more see more... , Paolo Turco , Anna Karina , Nino Manfredi

A hard-working Sicilian heads for Switzerland in search of a better life in this gentle, sweet-sour Italian comedy. Despite the poor fellow's best efforts to fit in with his neighbors, he never quite ... read more read more...seems to make it. Of course his tragedy is the audience's delight. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi

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R, 1 hr. 52 min.

Directed by: Franco Brusati

Release Date: June 1, 1974

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DVD Release Date: May 2, 2005

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  • moonrivers
    April 14, 2012
    moonrivers
    From 1974 this Italian piece plays at first like several skits from the old Saturday Night Live or even (going further back) the Carol Burnett Show, but soon you realise these light seeming comic moments have a heart and a soul as we follow one immigrant's journey to belong in a ... read moreland of wealth and promise. Better than even its own beginning ... which might be on purpose.
  • gator681
    June 19, 2006
    gator681
    [font=Century Gothic]In "Bread and Chocolate", Nino(Nino Manfredi) is an Italian citizen, living and working as a waiter in the promised land of Switzerland. He is hopeful to send for his family and is competing for a permanent position at a restaurant with an immigrant from Tu... read morerkey. Nino is trying so hard to keep his nose clean, that he delays in notifying the authorities about the body he discovers in the woods. However, he is summoned into a meeting with the police on a relatively minor matter of public urination... [/font]
    [font=Century Gothic][/font]
    [font=Century Gothic]"Bread and Chocolate" is a poignant and gentle comedy of manners about trying to succeed in a strange country and the conflict between making a better living there and the ensuing homesickness. While it does not have the impact of "Ali: Fear Eats the Soul"(which was made around the same time), this movie still has plenty to say on the subject of immigration and assimilation.[/font]

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Ken Hanke
July 30, 2002
Ken Hanke, Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

Odd, entertaining little film

Vincent Canby
May 9, 2005
Vincent Canby, New York Times

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Dave Kehr
January 1, 2000
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader

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Emanuel Levy
July 2, 2005
Emanuel Levy, EmanuelLevy.Com

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Carol Cling
August 22, 2003
Carol Cling, Las Vegas Review-Journal

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Philip Martin
December 30, 2002
Philip Martin, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

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February 9, 2006
Time Out

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