Bread and Chocolate

Original title: Pane e cioccolata

1974
1h 40m

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Italian immigrant Nino steadfastly tries to become a member of Swiss Society no matter how awful his situation becomes.Italian immigrant Nino steadfastly tries to become a member of Swiss Society no matter how awful his situation becomes.Italian immigrant Nino steadfastly tries to become a member of Swiss Society no matter how awful his situation becomes.

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7.4/10

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- 10 wins & 3 nominations

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Trivia
"Bread and Chocolate" won the New York Film Critics Award for Best Foreign Film in 1978, four years after the films production, because the film wasn't released in America until 1978.

Goofs
When Nino attempts to revive his inert industrialist boss with coffee, he inadvertently switches on the massage feature of the bed, dousing himself, but he is splash-free when he leaves to fill an ice bucket with water and shown dripping with the coffee after he returns to the bedroom.

Quotes
Giovanni 'Nino' Garofoli: You're Italian, and I'm Italian. But is it enough to make us alike? Am I like you?

Connections
Edited into Bellissimo: Immagini del cinema italiano (1985)

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Sekt Mit Sugar
Written Guido Patrizio (as G. Patrizio) and Daniele Patucchi (as D. Patrucchi)
Sung by Guido Patrizio
Orchestrated and directed by Daniele Patucchi

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Should be turned into a Broadway musical

When this comedy came out in the 70's, it was aptly described as "Chaplinesque". The hero, a coarse Italian immigrant in Switzerland, is as much an Everyman as Chaplin's Tramp. The movie was a hit in the US, winning the NY Critics' Award for Best Foreign Film. Nino Manfredi is funny and touching as the earthy immigrant, the "bread" in the land of refinement ("chocolate"). Anna Karina is stunning as the Greek stowaway who shares some of the same predicament as Manfredi. The "chicken coop" sequence is particularly hilarious. I think this is one movie that deserves to be transformed into a Broadway musical. How about it, Mr. Sondheim?