The Swindlers
Drama
Mario is in Hannover to work as a miner but after losing his job he decides to go back to Italy. When Totonno steals his passport to avoid the police and later on he offers him a new job as "magliaro" (cloth seller), Mario changes his mind and decides to follow Totonno to Hamburg. In Hamburg, Totonno and his friends have to sell Mayer's cloth, but they meet with the hostility of a Polish gang and Mario falls in love with Paula Mayer.
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A stark, humanistic portrayal of foreign workers navigating hardship and seeking belonging. It feels like a quiet, observational study of lives lived on the margins, filled with a sense of weary resilience and the search for connection amidst bleak circumstances.
melancholicgrittyyearningwistfulsteadyneorealistsocial dramablack and white cinematographyimmigrationeconomic hardshipfound familycultural displacement
foreign worker
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