Enrico Lo Verso
Gino
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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
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.
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...
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- Enrico Lo Verso
- Gianni Amelio
- Drama
Brief Synopsis. The fall of communism has left Albania a swarming chaos of starvation and corruption--ripe for the picking by foreign swindlers. Enrico, an Italian con man, wants to set up a dummy factory with his partner, but must head the company with an Albanian.
- Gianni Amelio
- Sefer Pema
In his 1994 Lamerica Gianni Amelio raises traditional linear Italian film-making to new heights using the methods of neorealism to carry his audience along on a dreamlike, ironic mythologizing journey whose mood and methods are all his own.
Sep 9, 1994 · Overview. 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.
