PALERMO ODER WOLFSBURG
PALERMO OR WOLFSBURG
This film begins in the town of Palermo, where the film's central figure, Nicola, is a young victim of Sicily's high rate of unemployment. He decides to leave Palermo for Wolfsburg in Germany in search of employment. Along with Fassbinder's Angst essen Seele auf (1973), Schroeter's film becomes one of a handful of films to broach the subject of the difficulties foreigners faced in their attempts to integrate into German society without the support of the family and community structures they had left behind in their home countries. Like Regno di Napoli, Palermo oder Wolfsburg follows a chronological structure, but Schroeter's innovation in this film is to divide the narrative into three distinct sections or acts, each having their own particular style. Palermo oder Wolfsburg won the prestigious Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival in 1980, notably the first Golden Bear ever awarded to a German director. (Michelle Langford)
- Nicola Zarbo - Nicola
- Ida di Benedetto - Giovanna
- Magdalena Montezuma - Rechtsanwältin
- Otto Sander - Staatsanwalt
- Calogero Arancio - Nicolas Vater
- Padre Pace - Pfarrer
- Cavaliere Comparato - Großgrundbesitzer
- Brigitte Tilg - Brigitte Hahn
- Gisela Hahn - Brigittes Mutter
- Antonio Orlando - Antonio
- Johannes Wacker - Richter
- Ula Stoeckl - Schöffin
- Tamara Kafka - Zeugin
- Harry Baer - Hausbesetzer
- Ines Zamurovic - Dolmetscherin
- Isolde Barth - Sängerin
- Werner Schroeter
- Giuseppe Fava
- Thomas Mauch
- Heiko von Swieykowsky
- Werner Schroeter
- Ursula West
- Alban Berg
- Alberte Barsacq
- Magdalena Montezuma
- Roberto Lagana
- Edwin Wengobowski
- Magdalena Montezuma
- Alberte Barsacq
- Roberto Lagana
- Edwin Wengobowski
- Oracio Torrisi/Werner Schroeter/Klaus Dethloff
Thomas Mauch Paul-Linke-Ufer 17 10999 Berlin, Deutschland T 30 618 77 32
