Bread and Chocolate

Bread and Chocolate (1974)

Pane e cioccolata

You'll Laugh Till Your Heart Breaks

An Italian immigrant tries to make a new life in Switzerland, taking on a series of increasingly menial jobs in order to do it. He attempts to fit into his new home and society but fails at every turn. Unable to go home again, will his tenacity and optimism be enough to live on?

Date of release
1974-05-05
TMDB
7.2 / 10 (102)
Runtime
1h 55m
Genres
Comedy, Drama
Director
Franco Brusati

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Awards: 1 · Nominations: 0. Including: David di Donatello for Best Film

Bread and Chocolate is a 1974 Italian comedy-drama film directed by Franco Brusati. This film chronicles the misadventures of an Italian immigrant to Switzerland and is representative of the commedia all'italiana film genre. In 2008, the film was included on the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage’s 100 Italian films to be saved, a list of 100 films that "have changed the collective memory of the country between 1942 and 1978."

Production

Ugo Pirro worked uncredited on the script during its early stages of development. The first choice for the main role was Ugo Tognazzi, who soon clashed with Brusati and exited the project; Alberto Sordi was interested in the film but also pretended to direct it.

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