Completed - ITALIAN, GERMAN - Drama - 96 minutes
A child in search of his father, who has disappeared without a trace, meets a penniless young man in a land far from their own, and establishes a bond with him that will last for ever.
Year of production : 2011 Director(s) : Toni TRUPIA Writer(s) : Leonardo MARINI, Michele PLACIDO, Toni TRUPIA Cast : Francesco SCIANNA, Michele PLACIDO, Monica BIRLADEANU, Tiziano TALARICO
Itaker is the story of a voyage from Italy to Germany, in the years before the economic boom. A special voyage, because it is a nine year old boy named Pietro, who undertakes it, in order to find his emigrant father, of whom he has no news for a long time. He is accompanied on this voyage, harsh and full of discoveries, by Benito, an penniless Italian who, despite of himself, through Pietro learns the meaning of fatherhood. As a background to the main plot, we see the world of the italian emigrants in Germany, their hopes and disappointments and their search for a better tomorrow than the one they can expect in their own country.
Country(ies) : ITALY, ROMANIA
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