I Magliari Sub Eng F. Rosi 1959 TnTVillage

Titolo originale I magliari
Paese Italia/Francia
Anno 1959
Durata 121 min
Colore b/n
Audio sonoro
Genere drammatico
Regia Francesco Rosi
Soggetto Suso Cecchi D'Amico, Francesco Rosi
Sceneggiatura Suso Cecchi D'Amico, Giuseppe Patroni Griffi, Francesco Rosi
Produttore Franco Cristaldi
Casa di produzione Vides Cinematografica, Titanus, S.G.C.
Fotografia Gianni Di Venanzo
Montaggio Mario Serandrei
Musiche Piero Piccioni
Scenografia Dietel Bartels
Costumi Graziella Urbinati
Interpreti e personaggi
Alberto Sordi: Ferdinando Magliulo, detto Totonno
Belinda Lee: Paula Mayer
Renato Salvatori: Mario Balducci
Nino Vingelli: Vincenzo
Aldo Giuffré: Armando
Aldo Bufi Landi: Rodolfovalentino
Nino Di Napoli: Ciro
Lina Vandal: Frida
Joseph Dahmen: Mayer
Carmine Ippolito: don Raffaele Tramontana
Pasquale Cennamo: don Gennaro
Ubaldo Granata: Umberto, direttore del ristorante italiano
Else Knott
Salvatore Cafiero
Antonio La Raina
Premi
Nastri d'argento 1960: miglior fotografia in bianco e nero

Mario is in Hannover to work as a miner but after loosing 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. (IMDb)

In Rosi's film I magliari (The Weavers, sometimes known as The Swindlers, 1959) the Southern Problem is articulated through the theme of emigration. The film is, in fact, both set and shot entirely in Germany where a motley group of Italian immigrants try to make their fortune by engaging in a series of organised scams that appear to revolve around the sale of poor quality textiles to Germans at inflated prices. Although the latter part of the film develops into something of a love story between the rather good-hearted young Tuscan emigrant, Mario (Renato Salvatore), and Paola (Belinda Lee), the wife of the German boss, much of the film focuses on male groups exercising, challenging and negotiating power in a desperate effort to secure spoils and territory

Thanks to reeltime for the original release,
JMS for the english subs (.srt included ;) )