I watched three films by Fatih Akin (Aztec Sun, On the Edge of Paradise and Shower Kitchen), I liked them, so when I came across his next film, Solino, I decided to watch it too. Despite the fact that Fatih Akin himself was born in Germany, nevertheless, being a Turk by birth, he constantly develops an immigrant theme, obviously, with
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I watched three films by Fatih Akin (Aztec Sun, On the Edge of Paradise and Shower Kitchen), I liked them, so when I came across his next film, Solino, I decided to watch it too. Despite the fact that Fatih Akin himself was born in Germany, nevertheless, being a Turk by birth, he constantly develops an immigrant theme, obviously, with this and there still not everything is so simple and good. In this film, the main characters are not Turks, but Italians, of whom there are also many in Germany. Once in the 60s, the father of the family Romano Amato (Gigi Savoie) moved his family - his wife Rosa (Antonella Attili) and two sons Giancarlo (adult he is played by Moritz Bleibtra) and Gigi (adult he is played by Barnaby Mechurat) from the small Italian town of Solino to Germany, in Duisburg, where he opensburg, a pizzeria, which he calls "Solino", where things are going very well at first. The sons somehow settle down, Romano himself is happy with the way he is doing things, but his wife Rosa can not really take root there. Relationships between family members cannot be called cloudless. The older brother from childhood is not distinguished by honesty and decency, while the younger and learns better, and human qualities have more worthy, often he has to puff out for what his brother is drawn into, which does not prevent him from remaining so slightly more naive, but also a better person, and the girls always treated him better, which caused envy and anger in the older brother. Over time, the brothers finally broke up with their father, who shamelessly used them, not wanting to pay them a normal salary for working in a pizzeria, and they leave home together. Over time, the wife leaves her husband, catching him with his mistress. Gigi always dreamed of making movies and slowly managed to shoot something - first photos, then an amateur film, which even gets to one local film festival and wins there. However, the mother falls ill with leukemia, she wants to return to Italy, Gigi takes her there, hoping to return soon, thinking that his brother will replace him. But everything does not turn out as he expected, and the brother manifests himself in all its glory, posing as him as the creator of the film, eventually Gigi finds out about it, comes to Germany for a while, and then returns back to Italy, where he eventually settles his life, starts a family and makes new films. And the brother, although he comes to his wedding, but it turns out that he is single, he has no one, he says that he works for TV and makes documentaries, but we do not know if this is true. The film, of course, is unwise, it is simply about people, about their relationships, about their human qualities. The actors play well, so I watched with interest.
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