Golden door [videorecording (DVD)] / Alexandre Mallet-Guy and Fabrizio Mosca presentanno una coproduzione franco-italiano/ Memento Films production/Titti Film/ Respiro in coproduzione con Arte France Cinema in collaborazione con Rai Cinema in associazione con Wild Bunch con la particcipazone di Canal Plus ; produced by Alexandre Mallet-Guy, Fabrizio Mosca and Emanuele Crialese ; a film written and directed by Emanuele Crialese.
Charlotte Gainsbourg, Vincenzo Amato, Aurora Quatrocchi, Francesco Casisa, Filippo Pucillo, Vincent Schiavelli. Originally released as a motion picture in 2007. Special features: Introduction by Martin Scorsese; making of Golden door. For private home use only.
Summary:
Salvatore is a very poor farmer and a widower who decides to emigrate to the U.S. with all his family, including his old mother. Before they embark, they meet Lucy. She is a British woman who wants to go back to the States. Lucy, or Luce as Salvatore calls her, needs to marry someone before she arrives at Ellis Island in New York. Salvatore accepts her 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.
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