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Lamerica is a 1994 Italian drama film directed by Gianni Amelio. It entered the competition at the 51st Venice International Film Festival, in which Amelio won the Golden Osella for Best Director. The film was selected as the Italian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 67th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.
Oct 4, 1995 · Lamerica: Directed by Gianni Amelio. With Enrico Lo Verso, Michele Placido, Piro Milkani, Carmelo Di Mazzarelli. Immediately after the fall of communism in Albania, two Italians go there to embezzle investment money by creating a fake company.
Far from his roots, loosing his identity in deep Albania, he begins to change... — Yepok. This movie depicts a lesson of history before, during and after Mussolini, a transition between socialism and communism, poverty and early technology in the humanity's timeline.
Lamerica, a visual narrative, takes the viewer on a lyrical journey across the states, through 16mm frames evocative of postcards from the road. Italian director Stefano Galli photographs the country as it unfolds before his incisive, wry outsiders eye. Presented in a series of mostly static, lengthy tableau shots--vignettes from
Sep 9, 1994 · Fiore, an Italian conman, arrives in post Communist Albania with Gino, his young apprentice, to set up a shoe factory that will never open. The con requires a native Albanian, so they designate Spiro, an impoverished and confused former political prisoner as chairman of the board.
After the fall of communism in Albania, Italian con artists Gino (Enrico Lo Verso) and Fiore (Michele Placido) head to the politically turbulent country to start a phony investment firm. As a ...
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Two Italian racketeers come to Albania just after the fall of the communists to set up a fictive firm and pocket the grants. They need a stooge. They choose an old one in a jail : Spiro. But the youngest italian, Gino, once alone with Spiro, encounter a few problems.
Fiore, an Italian conman, arrives in post Communist Albania with Gino, his young apprentice, to set up a shoe factory that will never open. The con requires a native Albanian, so they designate Spiro, an impoverished and confused former political prisoner as chairman of the board.
Year: 1994. Original title: Lamerica. Synopsis: An opportunistic Italian swindler heads to Albania and finds himself involved with the life of an impoverished local in this somber political drama. Gino (Enrico Lo Verso) and his partner in crime ...You can watch Lamerica through on the platforms:
Lamerica. Lamerica. Italy . Synopsis. Fiore and Gino, two Italian wheeler-dealers, one, older and more expert, the other, younger but eager to learn, arrive in post-communist Albania. They want to buy a public shoe factory at a near to nothing cost, a scam which is made possible by the chaos that reigns in the disastrous economy of the country. There's just one obstacle: by law, they need an Albanian partner. But people like them know well how to overcome the problem.
