Palermo or Wolfsburg
GER 1980, 170 min
Germany is a foreign country where you have to make an effort.
Synopsis
Nicola, a young victim of Sicily’s high rate of unemployment, decides to leave Palermo for Wolfsburg in Germany in search of work but there gets entengled in a fight which ends up deadly.
Along with Fassbinder’s ANGST ESSEN SEELEN AUF (1973), Schroeter’s film becomes one of a handful of films to broach the subject of the difficulties foreigners faced in their attempts to integrate into German society without the support of the family and community structures they had left behind in their home countries.
Awards and Festivals
- Berlinale 1980 (Ausgezeichnet mit dem Goldenen Bären)
Credits
Director
Werner Schroeter
Screenplay
Werner Schroeter, Giuseppe Fava
With
Nicola Zarbo, Ida di Benedetto, Brigitte Tilg, Otto Sander, Magdalena Montezuma, Claude-Oliver Rudolph
Director of Photography
Thomas Mauch
Camera Assistants
Jörg Schüller, Rolf Silber, Fritz Poppenberg, Giorgio Urbinell
Set Photographers
Elfi Mikesch, Digne Meller Marcovicz
Editor
Werner Schroeter
Assistant Editor
Ursula West
Music
Alban Berg
Production Design
Alberte Barsacq, Roberto Lagana, Magdalena Montezuma, Edwin Wengoborski
Make-up Artists
Werner Schroeter, Lamberto Marini
Costume
Alberte Barsacq, Roberto Lagana, Magdalena Montezuma
Light
Ulrich Lotze
Sound
Heiko von Swieykowski
Sound Mix
Gerhard Jensen
Assistant Director
Horatori Torrini, Ursula West
Producer
Thomas Mauch, Eric Franck
Produced by
Thomas Mauch Filmproduktion, Artco-Film, ZDF
DVD-Details
Extras
Interview with Werner Schroeter (10 min), Trailer
Language
German (partly with German subtitles)
Subtitles
English
Country Code
Code-free
System
NTSC / Color
Length
170 min + 10 min Extras
Aspect Ratio
16:9
Sound Format
DD 2.0
Set Content
Softbox (Set Content: 1), 12-pages Booklet with photos by Digne Meller Marcovicz
Release Date
03.04.2009
Rating
From 16 Years