Palermo or Wolfsburg
1980 | 170 min | Drama
Work is scarce in Sicily, so 18-year-old Nicola follows many of his compatriots to cold Germany. He finds a job at VW in Wolfsburg and falls in love with Brigitte, a car mechanic. But she only uses him to make her German friends jealous. In a fight, Nicola kills the two men and only finds himself again in court. PALERMO OR WOLFSBURG deliberately shows a view of the Federal Republic's reconstruction phase, in which life is only administered and bureaucratized, “a country where there is no light, no ...
