DVD
Golden door
Call Number
- DVD FOREIGN FILMS (CEN)
Edition
Widescreen version.
Languages
Subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH) ; in Italian (Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound) or Spanish with optional English, French or Spanish subtitles.
Performers
Charlotte Gainsbourg, Vincenzo Amato, Aurora Quatrocchi, Francesco Casisa, Filippo Pucillo, Vincent Schiavelli.
Publication Information
Burbank, CA : Miramax Home Entertainment : Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, [2008]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (ca. 118 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Audience
MPAA rating: PG-13; for brief graphic nudity.
Summary
Salvatore is a very poor farmer and a widower who decides to emigrate to the U.S. with his entire family, including his old mother. Before they embark, they meet Lucy, a British woman who wants to go back to the States. Lucy, or Luce as Salvatore calls her, needs to marry someone before she arrives at Ellis Island in New York. Salvatore accepts her proposal. Once they arrive in Ellis Island they spend the quarantine period trying to pass the examinations to be admitted to the States. Tests are not so simple for poor farmers coming from Sicily. Their destiny is in the hands of the custom officers.
Notes
Originally released as a motion picture in 2007.
Special features: Introduction by Martin Scorsese; making of Golden door.
Subjects
- Widowers > Drama.
- Quarantine > Ellis Island (N.J. and N.Y.) > Drama.
- Married people > Drama
- Immigrants > United States > Drama.
- Italians > United States > Drama.
- Action and adventure films
- Foreign films, Italian.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired
- United States > Emigration and immigration > Drama.
- Ellis Island (N.J. and N.Y.) > In motion pictures.
- Ellis Island Immigration Station (N.Y. and N.J.) > Drama.