Italian immigrant Nino steadfastly tries to become a member of Swiss Society no matter how awful his situation becomes.Italian immigrant Nino steadfastly tries to become a member of Swiss Society no matter how awful his situation becomes.Italian immigrant Nino steadfastly tries to become a member of Swiss Society no matter how awful his situation becomes.
- Awards
- 10 wins & 3 nominations
Geoffrey Copleston
- Boegli
- (as Geoffrey Copplestone)
Cyrus Elias
- Michele, the thief
- (as Ciro Elias)
Storyline
Did you know
- Trivia"Bread and Chocolate" won the New York Film Critics Award for Best Foreign Film in 1978, four years after the films production, because the film wasn't released in America until 1978.
- GoofsWhen Nino attempts to revive his inert industrialist boss with coffee, he inadvertently switches on the massage feature of the bed, dousing himself, but he is splash-free when he leaves to fill an ice bucket with water and shown dripping with the coffee after he returns to the bedroom.
- Quotes
Giovanni 'Nino' Garofoli: You're Italian, and I'm Italian. But is it enough to make us alike? Am I like you?
- ConnectionsEdited into Bellissimo: Immagini del cinema italiano (1985)
- SoundtracksSekt Mit Sugar
Written Guido Patrizio (as G. Patrizio) and Daniele Patucchi (as D. Patrucchi)
Sung by Guido Patrizio
Orchestrated and directed by Daniele Patucchi
Featured review
Although a bit too long,"Pane e Cioccolate" features moments of unquestionable brilliance,of sheer genius ,which make him a classic of the Italian cinema any day.
The scenes in the chicken cop are terrific and include idea to rival the best of the Italian cinema of the seventies ,which is saying something.It's so terrific I have to search my memory to find such terrifying scenes as those of the poor wops turning into poultry.And as if it weren't enough,those purple passages are followed by the irruption of posh young people,rich kids,who look like E.T.s .
It's Italian directors' forte to walk a fine line between comedy and drama (the drag act),a thing French movies simply can't achieve ,with a few exceptions.Much more accessible than his stodgy "disordine" ,"pane" is Brusati's (and Manfredi's ) triumph :it's updated Chaplin -the scene when the hero chews his sandwich when elegant ladies are serving cakes and enjoying classical music - An immigrant will always be "tried out" .Everywhere he shows,he will be the perfect loser .
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The scenes in the chicken cop are terrific and include idea to rival the best of the Italian cinema of the seventies ,which is saying something.It's so terrific I have to search my memory to find such terrifying scenes as those of the poor wops turning into poultry.And as if it weren't enough,those purple passages are followed by the irruption of posh young people,rich kids,who look like E.T.s .
It's Italian directors' forte to walk a fine line between comedy and drama (the drag act),a thing French movies simply can't achieve ,with a few exceptions.Much more accessible than his stodgy "disordine" ,"pane" is Brusati's (and Manfredi's ) triumph :it's updated Chaplin -the scene when the hero chews his sandwich when elegant ladies are serving cakes and enjoying classical music - An immigrant will always be "tried out" .Everywhere he shows,he will be the perfect loser .
Like this? try these.....
They're a weird mob (Powell,1966) America America (Kazan ,1963) The immigrant (Chaplin,1918)
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- Release date
- Country of origin
- Languages
- Also known as
- Brot und Schokolade
- Filming locations
- Dear Studios, Rome, Lazio, Italy(Studio, as Studi Dear - Roma)
- Production company
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- Runtime1 hour 40 minutes
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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