«Bread and Chocolate»
In a humorous, warm-hearted way, Franco Brusati's social satire denounces Switzerland's rigid policy on foreigners. In 1974 it won the Silver Bear in Berlin.
Pane e Cioccolata is the film about Italian emigration to Switzerland par excellence.
A film with which most Italian emigrants can relate and to which all look back with a tinge of melancholy.
About the film: The misadventures of an Italian emigrant - Nino Garofoli (Nino Manfredi) emigrates to rich Switzerland to try his luck. However, the Swiss bureaucracy serves the waiter ice-cold and Nino even loses his residence permit ...
The unfortunate protagonist finally decides, after deigning to do a humiliating job, to pretend to be Swiss, but is caught and thrown out. On the train that takes him back to Italy, he changes his mind and returns, determined not to give up.
A film by Franco Brusati, 1972
