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- Enrico Lo Verso - Gino
- Piro Milkani - Selimi
- Carmelo Di Mazzarelli - Spiro (alias Michele Talarico )
- Elida Janushi - Selimis cousin
- Sefer Pema - warden
- Idajet Sejdia - Dr. Kruja
- Marieta Ljarja - factory management
- Elina Ndreu - singer in a nightclub
- Artan Marina - Ismail
Lame Rica is a feature film and award-winning social drama of 1994 by Gianni Amelio.
Summary
Albania 1991 - the once isolated country prevails after the collapse of the socialist regime the chaos. The savvy, Italian Fiore (Michele Placido - " The Octopus " ) and the arrgoante, obnoxious 28 -year-old yuppie Gino ( Enrico Lo Verso ) are elegant Italian "entrepreneur" who come to Albania to a shoe factory for little money. Buy They pretend to want this rebuild, and then insert the subsidies in their own pockets. But for this purchase, you need a local straw man should be as clueless to simple - perfect would be a resistance fighter against communism. They rummage through dilapidated former labor camp and meet people you can see that they were subjected to atrocities. But it bounces off the two. Finally Fiore and Gino find a troubled old man: Spiro Tozaj (aka Michele Tallarico ) ( Carmelo Di Mazzarelli ) - a political prisoner and Italian veteran of World War II. It is easily confused and destitute, so that it appears as a perfect choice until he unexpectedly disappears shortly before signing the contract.
Now Gino must now find the 80 -year-old "president " of their front company in the Albanian mountains, where he. With the difficult conditions with which the people of Albania have to cope and great poverty is confronted Different rules apply.
Finally Ginos Jeep is totally robbed. Underneath the car tires and the fancy shoes that he gave Spiro. Everything is gone - just not his arrogant "I 'm Italian " attitude. However, since Ginos passport disappears, he must pretend to be Albanians to come as a refugee to Italy. Thereupon the young upstart Gino and the old Spiro close to a group of Albanian poverty refugees heading out in search of a better life to Italy - first on a truck. Far away from his Italian roots, Gino is starting to change. Together with Spiro Gino finally ascends with the other emigrants a ship called the refugees " Lame Rica " and that will take them to Italy.
On his journey, Gino learns the tragic, personal fate of Spiro know who is actually Italian: He deserted as a young guy like many others and then went into hiding as Albanians. He still thinks he is in his youth and want to return to Sicily - to his fiancée.
The Albanian exodus corresponds to Italian emigration to the U.S., so that Spiro believes that this is the ultimate goal of their journey. Thus, also the title of the movie " Lame Rica " refers to the hope of the Promised Land: What is the Albanians Italy, was once the Italians America.
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This drama is a very touching and impressive inventory. With great skepticism of the film shows a dark vision about the loss of dignity and identity - for the individual and for a whole people. " A quiet, intense, poetic but realistic road movie that gets under your skin " ( cinema ).
In the film, Spiro Toiza discovers his Italian identity again as Michele and believe at the end of the film, that the ship make their way to New York, while on the other hand, Gino has lost all evidence of his Italian identity and on the boat full of Albanians themselves as a looks of them. These two storylines " challenge Italy's colonial past, thereby forcing the redefinition of the concept of identity. Who is Italian? And what it means to be Italian? " ( " Challenge Italy 's colonial past and in so doing force the redefinition of the notion of identity. Who is Italian? And what does it mean to be Italian? " )
TV Guide gives the film four stars and is of the opinion that he is a bold - sobering portrait of post-communist Europe in moral darkness - with passion and extraordinary grace from Italian director Gianni Amelio ( Stolen Children) staged. ("A boldly chilling portrait of post- Communist Europe in moral eclipse, directed with passion and singular grace by Italian Gianni Amelio ( STOLEN CHILDREN ). " )
Janet Maslin wrote in The New York Times, " the synthesis of the film of fact and fiction is gracefully realized " ( " The film 's synthesis of fact and fiction is gracefully Achieved " ) and brings their hope that after the performance of Lame Rica during New York Film Festival ( 1995) Amelio would be much better known ( "emerge ... much more Widely known" )