1. Italy
Bread and Chocolate is about the trials of an Italian immigrant worker in Switzerland, rendered episodically but sometimes affectingly by Franco Brusati in 1978. As the victimized hero, Nino Manfredi grows from self-pity to self-awareness as he experiences the infinite subtleties of Swiss racism and becomes increasingly disgusted with the defeat of his fellow coworkers. Brusati has a hard time drawing together the disparate elements of his screenplay, but he creates a few remarkable images--particularly in an unforgettable scene set in a chicken coop, in which Manfredi discovers just where he ...
- Word Count: 2032
- Approx Pages: 8
- Grade Level: High School