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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.
As the chairman/fall guy, they pick a former political prisoner who turns out to be more than meets the eye. Two Italian racketeers come to Albania just after the fall of the communists to set up a fictive firm and pocket the grants. They need a stooge. They choose an old one in a jail : Spiro.
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.
After the fall of communism in Albania, Italian con artists Gino (Enrico Lo Verso) and Fiore (Michele Placido) head to the politically turbulent country to start a phony investment firm. As a ...
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Lamerica, a visual narrative, takes the viewer on a lyrical journey across the states, through 16mm frames evocative of postcards from the road. Italian director Stefano Galli photographs the country as it unfolds before his incisive, wry outsiders eye. Presented in a series of mostly static, lengthy tableau shots--vignettes from
Sep 9, 1994 · Fiore, an Italian conman, arrives in post Communist Albania with Gino, his young apprentice, to set up a shoe factory that will never open. The con requires a native Albanian, so they designate Spiro, an impoverished and confused former political prisoner as chairman of the board.
Jan 6, 1995 · Shot in an oppressive, highly effective Cinemascope, "Lamerica" shows us a land of entrenched poverty whose unfortunate inhabitants watch Italian television and dream of their "America," the ...
