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The Golden Door
2006
At the start of the 20th-century, Salvatore (Vincenzo Amato), a poor Sicilian farmer, emigrates to US. En route, he meets Lucy (Charlotte Gainsbourg), a shady character in need of a spouse to help her get through Ellis Island and into the promised land. Read more
| Starring | Charlotte Gainsbourg, Vincenzo Amato, Aurora Quattrocchi, Francesco Casisa |
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| Director | Emanuele Crialese |
| Genres | Drama, World Cinema |
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The Golden Door
At the start of the 20th-century, Salvatore (Vincenzo Amato), a poor Sicilian farmer, emigrates to US. En route, he meets Lucy (Charlotte Gainsbourg), a shady character in need of a spouse to help her get through Ellis Island and into the promised land.
| Starring | Charlotte Gainsbourg, Vincenzo Amato, Aurora Quattrocchi, Francesco Casisa, Filippo Pucillo, Federica De Cola, Isabella Ragonese, Vincent Schiavelli |
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| Director | Emanuele Crialese |
| Studio | ELEVATION |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 53 mins |
| Certificate |  |
| Genres | Drama, World Cinema |
| Language | DVD: Italian |
| Subtitles | DVD: English |
| Released | Production year: 2006 To Rent: DVD: 29 Oct 2007 |
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how did anyone make it to america?
This is a beautiful, whimsical film which follows the seemingly interminable journey of a family of sicilian peasants from the wild hillsides of their homeland ... read more »
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never really gets going
This film had a promising and intriguing start, but then did not really go anywhere. It is quite a long film, but not as long as it seems. Charlotte Gainsbourg ... read more »
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the golden door
this film was not very interesting was long drawn out was ok if you want to watch two men climeing over rocks and it lost the plot
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Golden Door
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Released as 'Nuovomundo' in its native Italy - 'The New World' is taken, right? - Golden Door is the second film to reach these shores by Emanuele Crialese, the writer-director of Respiro. Set at the turn of the twentieth century, it's a film about a family of illiterate Sicilian peasants coming to America, spurred on by doctored photographs of money growing on trees and chickens the size of donkeys. They find passage on a great steam ship. Men and women are immediately separated, and such is... Read more
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The Golden Door
At the start of the 20th-century, Salvatore (Vincenzo Amato), a poor Sicilian farmer, emigrates to US. En route, he meets Lucy (Charlotte Gainsbourg), a shady character in need of a spouse to help her get through Ellis Island and into the promised land....
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