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| Directed by | Franco Brusati |
| Produced by | Maurizio Lodi-Fe Turi Vasile |
| Written by | Franco Brusati Jaja Fiastri Nino Manfredi |
| Starring | Nino Manfredi Johnny Dorelli Anna Karina |
| Music by | Daniele Patucchi |
| Cinematography | Luciano Tovoli |
| Editing by | Mario Morra |
| Distributed by | Cinéma International Corporation |
| Release date(s) | 1974 (Italy, France) July 14, 1978 (USA) |
| Running time | 111 minutes[1] |
| Country | Italy |
| Language | Italian, German, English |
Bread and Chocolate (Italian: Pane e cioccolata) is a 1974 Italian comedy-drama film directed by Franco Brusati. This film chronicles the misadventures of an Italian immigrant to Switzerland and is representative of the commedia all'italiana film genre.
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Like many southern Europeans of the period (1960s to early 1970s), Nino Garofalo (Nino Manfredi) is a migrant "guest worker" from Naples, working as a waiter in Switzerland. He loses his work permit when he is caught urinating in public, so he begins to lead a clandestine life in Switzerland. At first he is supported by Elena, a Greek woman. Then he befriends an Italian industrialist, relocated to Switzerland because of financial problems. The industrialist takes him under his wing, only to commit suicide when he squanders his last savings. Nino is constrained to find shelter with a group of clandestine Neapolitans living in a chicken coop, together with the same chickens they tend to in order to survive. Captivated by the idyllic vision of a group of young blonde, Swiss youths, he decides to dye his hair and pass himself off as a local. In a bar, when rooting for the Italian national football team during its transmission, he is found out after celebrating a goal scored by Fabio Capello. He is arrested and deported. He embarks on a train and finds himself in a cabin filled with returning Italian guest workers. Amid the songs of "sun" and "sea", he is seen having second thoughts. He gets off at the first stop: better life as an illegal immigrant than a life of misery.
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