Lamerica Movie Review 1995

Two Italian hustlers, Fiore (Placido) and his younger partner Gino (Lo Verso), head for poverty-stricken Albania in 1991, the first year after the collapse of the Communist dictatorship. They intend to set up a phony corporation and scam money from government grants but they need an Albanian figurehead. The duo find simple-minded, elderly Spiro (Di Mazzarelli), who's spent most of his life in prison camps, and stash him in an orphanage for safe keeping. Only when Spiro gets away, Gino heads for the countryside to find him and discovers some secrets about Spiro's past and just how the wily Albanians have been surviving. Italian with subtitles.

Distribution

New Yorker Video, 16 W. 61st St., 11th Fl., New York, NY 10023, Phone: (212)645-4600, Toll-free: 800-447-0196, Fax: (212)645-3030, Email: info@newyorkerfilms.com, URL: http://www.newyorkerfilms.com

Available on VHS
Running time 116 minutes.
Originally from Italian.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Scams, Stings & Cons, Hard Knock Life, Growing Older, Road Trip, Politics

Screenplay

Gianni Amelio, Andrea Porporati, Alessandro Sermoneta

Cast

Enrico Lo Verso, Michele Placido, Carmelo Di Mazzarelli, Piro Milkani

Cinematography

Luca Bigazzi

Director

Gianni Amelio

Music

Franco Piersanti

Producer

Mario Cecchi Gori, Vittorio Cecchi Gori, New Yorker Films