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Lamerica is a 1994 Italian drama film directed by Gianni Amelio. It entered the competition at the 51st Venice International Film Festival, in which Amelio won the Golden Osella for Best Director. The film was selected as the Italian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 67th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.
Oct 4, 1995 · Lamerica: Directed by Gianni Amelio. With Enrico Lo Verso, Michele Placido, Piro Milkani, Carmelo Di Mazzarelli. Immediately after the fall of communism in Albania, two Italians go there to embezzle investment money by creating a fake company.
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- Comedy, Drama
- Gianni Amelio
- 1995-10-04
Lamerica. Summaries. Immediately after the fall of communism in Albania, two Italians go there to embezzle investment money by creating a fake company. As the chairman/fall guy, they pick a former political prisoner who turns out to be more than meets the eye.
Lamerica is a cinematic documentary that takes the viewer on a journey across the States, with portraits of salt of the earth Americans and chromatic landscapes, through 16mm frames evocative of postcards from the road.
Lamerica (1994) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Gianni Amelio's L'America is a biting, profoundly moving drama that illustrates how the downtrodden of society, beneath the hoopla of political change and the redistribution of power, are fated to do little more than shift from one kind of exploitation to another.