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Naples to New York (2024)
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Original name: Napoli-New York
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
In the immediate post-war period, amidst the rubble of a poverty-ridden Naples, two kids, Carmine and Celestina, try to survive as best they can by helping each other out. One night, they secretly board a ship bound for New York to reach Celestina’s sister, who emigrated to America several years earlier. The two children join the many Italian emigrants seeking a new life in America and arrive in an unknown metropolis, which, after several misadventures, they will learn to call home.
Style:
emotional, realistic, neorealism, period piece, historical drama, uplifting, melancholic, multicultural, period drama, nostalgic
Plot:
journey, post war, immigration, survival, friendship, poverty, working class, coming of age, resilience, struggle, social realism, hopes, family reunited, adaptation, identity, culture shock, bittersweet, assimilation, humanitarian, solidarity, emigration
Time:
1940s, 1950s
Place:
italy, new york, naples italy
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