Film
Solino. By Fatih Akin, 2002

An Italian family that emigrates to the Ruhr region must find their way in their new home.

Fri, 11.03.2016
7:00 PM Goethe-Institut Hanoi

The Amato family leaves Solino, their village in Southern Italy, and moves into the dull Ruhr area of the 1960s. Between coal and steel mills the family opens the very first pizza restaurant of Duisburg: Mother Rosa sweats over the kitchen stoves, and father Romano flirts with the female guests. When the two sons, Gigi and Giancarlo, fall in love with the same girl, the once inseparable brothers turn into rivals. Luck means well with the dreamy Gigi, but Giancarlo begrudges his brother’s achievements in life. As time goes by, the family falls apart, while Gigi and Giancarlo continue to compete for love and success. Only after years of mutual disappointments the two brothers eventually meet again and have to ask themselves the question, who lived his lifein the right way.

Fatih Akin - A movie director, scriptwriter, actor and producer born in Hamburg 1973. In his movies, he deals with themes like identity, culture and home. Fatih Akin became internationally known in 2004 with his movie Head-on, for which he won several prizes, including the Golden Bear. Since then he has been awarded numerous prizes, for example at the Venice Film Festival, the Cannes Film Festival, the German Film Awards and the European Film Awards.
 

About the film
Genre	Drama
Country	Germany
Year	2002
Director	Fatih Akin
Script	Ruth Toma
Cast	Barnaby Metschurat, Moritz Bleibtreu, Antonella Attili, Patrycia Ziolkoswka, Gigi Savoia, Tiziana Lodato, Hermann Lause, Vincent Schiavelli u.a.
Length	124 minutes
Awards	Bavarian Film Awards 2003: Best Script; Best Young Actor Guild Film Award 2003 - Silver: Best German Film Deutsche Film- und Medienbewertung (FBW): Certification especially valuable
Festivals	Filmfest Hamburg 2002 Gothenburg Film Festival 2003 Moscow International Film Festival 2003 Gijón International Film Festival 2009 Festroia International Film Festival 2014