Bread and Chocolate (1974)
Pane e cioccolata
You'll Laugh Till Your Heart Breaks
100 min
An Italian immigrant tries to make a new life in Switzerland, taking on a series of increasingly menial jobs in order to do it. He attempts to fit into his new home and society but fails at every turn. Unable to go home again, will his tenacity and optimism be enough to live on?
- Release date
- January 18, 1974
- Country of origin
- Italy
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Cast
- Nino Manfredi as Giovanni 'Nino' Garofoli
- Johnny Dorelli as Italian Industrialist
- Anna Karina as Elena
- Paolo Turco as Gianni
- Ugo D'Alessio as Pietro
- Tano Cimarosa as Gigi
- Gianfranco Barra as The Turk
- Giorgio Cerioni as Police Inspector
- Francesco D'Adda as Rudiger
- Umberto Raho as Jacques, the Maitre
- Geoffrey Copleston as Boegli
- Federico Scrobogna as Grigory
- Max Delys as Renzo
- Giorgio Dolfin as Paolo
Crew
- Franco Brusati · Director
- Franco Brusati · Writer
- Jaja Fiastri · Writer
- Nino Manfredi · Writer
- Maurizio Lodi-Fè · Producer
- Daniele Patucchi · Composer
- Luciano Tovoli · Cinematographer
- Mario Morra · Editor
- Luigi Scaccianoce · Production designer