Solino

• Barnaby Metschurat: Gigi
• Moritz Bleibtreu: Giancarlo
• Gigi Savoia: Romano
• Antonella Attili: Pink
• Patrycia Ziółkowska: Jo
• Tiziana Lodato: Ada
• Vincent Schiavelli: Director Baldi

Solino is a film by director Fatih Akın from 2002. It is about the Italian family Amato, who emigrated to the Ruhr region of southern Italy to Germany. The film is 1964-1984 and shows the fate of the family at intervals of ten years. It is the first film directed by Fatih Akın, in which he himself has not written the screenplay. The subtitles on the movie poster reads " brothers are always the closest friends ... and the bitterest rivals ."

Action

Romano Amato and his wife Rosa have heard of the economic miracle in Germany. With their young sons Giancarlo and Gigi they come to Duisburg in 1964 and hope for a better life there. They open a pizzeria together with the name of their home village solino. The younger Gigi befriends Mr. Klasen, the owner of the adjacent photo shop, and when a film crew shooting a film in the area, can host for a few days with his parents, he discovered his passion for photography and film. Giancarlo, more of a daredevil, while vying for more attention to the mutual friend Jo.

Ten years later, Gigi, Giancarlo and Jo rent an apartment together after they have fallen out with her ​​father. Gigi and Jo are now a couple. While Giancarlo hanging around with unsavory types, Gigi still wants to make movies. He even manages to be proposed with a documentary for the Ruhr Film Festival. When Rosa her husband caught red-handed with another woman, she moves in with her ​​sons in the WG. Through the hard work at the pizzeria she feels very tired and always finds then from her doctor that she is suffering from incurable leukemia. You want to immediately back to solino. Gigi does not have the heart to leave them alone and accompanies them to Italy. Call he learns there that his film to be shown at the Film Festival Ruhr and agreed with his brother that this long care of the mother. However, Giancarlo is not coming solino, but it takes the trophy at the Ruhr Film Festival in reception and pretends to be his brother. Gigi finds out about it in the newspaper and traveling furiously to Duisburg. There he caught Giancarlo with Jo in bed, and the two brothers split up in fraternal strife. Da Giancarlo to continue not want to take care of his mother, Gigi have no choice but to go back to solino. There he is Ada, a childhood friend, closer. The two open an open-air cinema where his films Gigi shows.

Again, ten years later married Ada and Gigi, and even Giancarlo comes for the first time back to solino. Only the father refuses to come to the wedding because he does not want to make a fool of in front of his village.

Formation

Ruth Toma had a screenplay about Italian immigrants in Germany is written to by the producer Ralph fescue had acquired an option. Fescue to obtain the view of a directly affected by immigration to the book and gave it to the German Turk Fatih Akın for reading. This was taken by Tomas work after initial skepticism, so that he really wanted to make the film itself, Akın then had to convince both fescue and Toma from the fact that he, who had previously only worked according to their own screenplays, for the project of the right director be.

Reviews

" An entertaining epic picture sheet, which it sometimes but lacks persuasiveness, as many just claims and the confrontation is mediated not always convincing with the stranger. The Figures inherent tragedy tends by the staging rather hesitant to sentimentality. Unhappy the mentalities and linguistic tone leveling synchronization. "

"Despite some lengths in the middle and a few unsatisfactory narratives Fatih Akin has created on the presentation of a great script, a great film that touches the audience and the story drags a. "

"With solino Fatih Akin has proven once again how well he can tell stories and create moods. The neo-realist film with partly romantic, partly tragicomic episodes was carefully orchestrated down to the details. "

"The film suffers from the simplification of its components. So almost every figure is clearly overdetermined: A dozen must repeat Gigi that he wants to make films (the film explains, he is a sensitive, born artist ), a dozen sets brother Giancarlo explains his criminal tendencies prove ( the film: it is a weak, coarse man ), latent pale and tired, the mother suffers from the German cold in a double sense (the film explains, she longs to Italy ), and so on and so forth. Because the film too little for his characters (and the reflectivity of the audience ) thinks he overstates them until they become clichés. "

Awards

• Bavarian Film Award 2003 Best of Ruth Toma in the category Best Screenplay and Barnaby Metschurat in the category Newcomer
• Nominated for the German Film Award for Best Feature Film
• Guild Film Award in Silver in the category Best German Film