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Bread and Chocolate

Original title: Pane e cioccolata
  • 1974
  • 1h 40m
IMDb RATING
7.4/10
2K
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Bread and Chocolate (1974)
Dark ComedySatireComedyDrama

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.

  • Director
    • Franco Brusati
  • Writers
    • Franco Brusati
    • Jaja Fiastri
    • Nino Manfredi
  • Stars
    • Nino Manfredi
    • Anna Karina
    • Paolo Turco
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    • IMDb RATING
    7.4/10
    2K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Franco Brusati
    • Writers
      • Franco Brusati
      • Jaja Fiastri
      • Nino Manfredi
    • Stars
      • Nino Manfredi
      • Anna Karina
      • Paolo Turco
    • 20User reviews
    • 10Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 10 wins & 3 nominations

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    Nino Manfredi
    Nino Manfredi
    • Giovanni 'Nino' Garofoli
    Anna Karina
    Anna Karina
    • Elena
    Paolo Turco
    Paolo Turco
    • Gianni
    Ugo D'Alessio
    • Pietro
    Tano Cimarosa
    Tano Cimarosa
    • Gigi
    Gianfranco Barra
    Gianfranco Barra
    • The Turk
    Giorgio Cerioni
    • Police Inspector
    Francesco D'Adda
    • Rudiger
    Geoffrey Copleston
    • Boegli
    • (as Geoffrey Copplestone)
    Federico Scrobogna
    • Grigory
    Max Delys
    • Renzo
    Johnny Dorelli
    Johnny Dorelli
    • Italian Industrialist
    Umberto Raho
    Umberto Raho
    • Jacques, il Maitre
    Nelide Giammarco
    • The Blonde
    Manfred Freyberger
    • Swissman on Bar
    Cyrus Elias
    • Michele, the thief
    • (as Ciro Elias)
    Licia Farre
    • Laura
    Giorgio Dolfin
    • Paolo
    • Director
      • Franco Brusati
    • Writers
      • Franco Brusati
      • Jaja Fiastri
      • Nino Manfredi
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    • 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.
    • Goofs
      When 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?

    • Connections
      Edited into Bellissimo: Immagini del cinema italiano (1985)
    • Soundtracks
      Sekt Mit Sugar
      Written Guido Patrizio (as G. Patrizio) and Daniele Patucchi (as D. Patrucchi)
      Sung by Guido Patrizio
      Orchestrated and directed by Daniele Patucchi

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    Emotional and funny

    Bread and Chocolate is a very humanistic movie that mixes funny with sadness. The way the Brusati shows us the way foreign people are welcome to Switzerland is somehow not the saddest way but in addition it has some humor. This makes the audience, like people said before, cry and laugh at the same time. It can also be based on a real person and not fictitious as people like Nino would do anything to stay in a country where they have opportunities. Excellent job for Brusati, it is the first Brusati film I have seen and I am looking forward to see another one.
    • orbanei
    • Apr 8, 2002
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    • Release date
      • January 18, 1974 (Italy)
    • Country of origin
      • Italy
    • Languages
      • Italian
      • German
      • English
      • French
      • Greek
      • Spanish
    • Also known as
      • Brot und Schokolade
    • Filming locations
      • Dear Studios, Rome, Lazio, Italy(Studio, as Studi Dear - Roma)
    • Production company
      • Verona Produzione
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 40 minutes
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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