Nuovomondo
- Charlotte Gainsbourg: Lucy
- Vincenzo Amato Salvatore Mancuso
- Aurora Quattrocchi: Donna Fortunata
- Francesco Casisa: Angelo Mancuso
- Filippo Pucillo: Pietro Mancuso
- Federica De Cola: Rita
- Isabella Ragonese: Pink
- Vincent Schiavelli: Don Luigi
- Massimo Laguardia: Mangiapane
- Filippo Luna: Don Ercole
- Andrea Prodan: Del Fiore
- Ernesto Mahieux: Dr. Zampino
Golden Door ( Original title: Nuovo Mondo ) is an Italian film that was shot in 2006 and directed by Emanuele Crialese. It is about a Sicilian peasant family that emigrates to the early 20th century in the United States.
Action
The peasant family Mancuso farmed for generations a barren piece of land in Sicily. The monotony is broken only by distant relative postcards that are already emigrated to the United States. In the widower Salvatore Mancusa the idea of a land flowing with milk and honey and thrive huge fruit growing. With the hope of a better life, he decides, along with his sons Angelo and Pietro and his mother Donna Fortunata also emigrate to the " New World".
The family that has never left her home village, spends four arduous weeks aboard a ship crammed with many unknown people in a confined space. Here we learn Salvatore young Englishwoman Lucy know into which he falls in love. She does not return his love, but marries him after arrival, because she has no chance without a marriage certificate to immigrate to the United States.
Finally they reach Ellis Iceland, a small island off New York. Here all comers are investigated and verified. However, not all entry is permitted. Donna Fortunata seems mentally confused and Pietro is considered dumb. Both threatens the return to Sicily and Salvatore looks ahead to an uncertain future.
Background
Background of the film is the Italian wave of emigration at the turn of the 19th to the 20th century in the United States. Between 1870 and World War I hiked 5 million southern Italians, mostly workers and peasants to America. After an arduous ocean crossing Ellis Iceland was the first stop for all immigrants. Through various examinations and tests chose the Immigration Department of the City of New York, who was allowed to enter. Thus, for example, Sick or illiterate sent back to their old home.
Reviews
" Crialese is a master of abstraction, as he masterfully swings from history to myth, the thousandth comes to detail, from the big picture to the little one, the singular dream of happiness. In his most successful passages his film tells the story of this journey as whimsical metamorphosis. From ancient times to modern times, from bloody feet to the automobile, the wind in the mountains to the city noise from patriarchy to an encounter with self-confident women "
" Almost documentary portrays Emanuele Crialese ... the operations in the port and on the ship. As an anthropologist, all details are important, he reconstructs the bustle of the charlatans who want the emigrants sell miracle juices and special visas, the oppressive narrowness at the crossing ... Crialese but not dramatized, he unfolds a double, paradoxical movement: Externally, the events directed to America, but the inner movement goes back and wants to penetrate into the magical, mythical imagination of the emigrants. "
Awards
2006 film with six prizes at the International Film Festival in Venice and 2007 with three David di Donatello in the categories of Best Costume Design, Best Production Design and Best Award visual effects.