America (2010) ( América ) ( América, una historia muy portuguesa )

America (2010) (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: América
Alternate Title: América, una historia muy portuguesa
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
Portuguese ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
Portuguese ( Subtitles )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Portugal ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
105 min

Aspect Ratio:
Anamorphic Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Anamorphic Widescreen
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 2010 and produced in:
Brazil ( Latin America, Mexico )
Portugal ( Spain, Portugal )
Russia ( Russia, Eastern Europe )
Spain ( Spain, Portugal )

Directed By:
João Nuno Pinto

Written By:
Luísa Costa Gomes
Melanie Dimantas

Actors:
Chulpan Khamatova ..... Liza
Fernando Luís ..... Vitor
María Barranco ..... Fernanda
Dinarte Branco ..... Paulo Armando
Cassiano Carneiro ..... Matias
Raul Solnado ..... Melo
Mikhail Evlanov ..... Andrei
Francisco Maestre ..... Tolentino (as Paco Maestre)
Nikolai Popkov ..... Aleksander
Manuel Custódia ..... Mauro
Beto ..... Carlitos
Dmitry Bogomolov ..... Dimitri
Helena Romão ..... Avó Eulália
Lurdes Pereira ..... D. Bernarda
Cesário Monteiro ..... Agarrado
Margarida Pina ..... Alexandra
Karen Badalov ..... Anton
Mina Andala ..... Armandina
Batista Sr. ..... Cigano
Vera Paz ..... Empregada
Nikolay Glinsky ..... Aleksander
Jurij Ickov ..... Atambaiev
Yury Istkov ..... Atambaiev
Celines Toribio ..... Miosotis

Synopsis:

Portugal, beginning of the new millennium. Liza is a young Russian immigrant married to a Portuguese man, with whom she has a child. Vitor, her husband, is in fact a petty crook who lives off scams and tricking old ladies. Mauro, the couple's son, is a strange child who has taken it upon himself not to speak. Besides all her domestic chores, Liza also has to take care of Vitor's grandmother, a bed-ridden, moribund, hundred-year-old lady who rejects any care that is given to her by Liza. Fernanda, Vitor's Spanish ex-wife, taking advantage of the wave of illegal immigrants into Portugal, turns up with a proposal for a false passports business. From then on, and to Liza's great despair, her house becomes a halfway house for countless immigrants of several differing nationalities and races, all looking for a better future. One of those to arrive is Andrei, a young Ukrainian orthopaedist who is wanted by the Russian mafia. Andrei ends up falling in love with Liza, who sees in him the opportunity to get out of that life. But things are not as straightforward as that...

America a tragic story told in a burlesque and ironic way, within a love triangle. Liza, a beautiful young Russian woman, is married to Victor, a small-time crook who lives on scheming and swindling, born and bred in Portugal. Fernanda, the ex wife, who ten year's passed decides to drop by, is the gang leader, an Andalusian Spaniard. Victor has to decide which women to follow, Liza cannot really leave him, Fernanda doesn't really want to stay. The six year old kid hangs everybody by a string. Eastern European newcomers give new business perspectives that are going to rock their small world by the beach: Cova do Vapor. A chaotic neighborhood of precarious housing located at Lisbon's gates, where the Tagus River meets the Atlantic, where fishermen and retired factory workers coexist. An obscure little place, where everything suddenly changes, even the weather. After a violent storm, the gangster's house gets a rusted fishing boat hanging on top of their home. In the midst of the tragedy, there's always room for love, and most of all, hope for a piece paper called passport, sometimes fake!

In the film America, presented in the Internatinal Competition of the 15th SIFF, João Nuno Pinto uses the topical subject of so called illegal immigration in South of Europe as a prism for deeper reflections about South and North, East and West, about the human relationships, globalization and civilization…

This product was added to our catalog on Saturday 05 November, 2011.

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