The Way We Laughed
– Studying to become a teacher in Turin, Italy, Pietro is joined by his older brother, Giovanni, who h..
Studying to become a teacher in Turin, Italy, Pietro is joined by his older brother, Giovanni, who has moved up from Sicily. While Giovanni is a worker with no schooling, Pietro shows considerable promise in academics, prompting the elder sibling to seek employment to support his brother's academic pursuits. Unfortunately, things don't go well for Giovanni and Pietro, and they face significant hardships as they try to improve their lives.
02 Oct 1998
Italian, French, Latin
Gianni Amelio
Gianni Amelio
Enrico Lo Verso, Francesco Giuffrida, Fabrizio Gifuni, Calogero Caruana
Turin at the end of the fifties: two brothers have emigrated there from Sicily and the older works very hard to let the younger study and free himself from poverty through culture. The boy ...
9 wins & 14 nominations.
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