Location: Montreal, Canada
Quebec, Kanada
Creator: Luciano Martinengo
Canada is one of the countries where there is a massive emigration of Italian workers. Starting from this finding, the documentary addresses the problem of what can now be considered the “Italian minority” living in Montreal. The filming of the documentary therefore shows places, situations that denote the permanence of traditional patterns and behaviors of the land of origin: bars with Italian names, frequented by Venetian workers; audience present at the stadium during a football match; a market on the street; life in the suburbs of Montreal; a church mass; a wedding reception. But alongside all this, the film highlights the difficulties, problems and ways in which the “Italian minority” fits into Canadian society; the question of bilingualism, due to the presence of French and English in Quebec; job prospects, especially with regard to young people and various types of activities; the dangers of conformism, accentuated by the merger of backward and conservative elements of the company of origin and that of the new country.
01. Inq various and pp of Italian immigrants gathered at Caffè Italia to listen to the results of football matches
02. Interviews of some Venetian immigrants on life in Canada
03. Advertising of Chinotto, photography by Fausto Coppi and Nino Benvenuti hanging on the walls
04. People at the edge of a suburban football field attend a match
05. PP of a young son of immigrants
06. Interview (in English) with two daughters of Italian immigrants
07. Children play in snow-covered alleys; two cops on horseback; young people sitting on a staircase
08. Interviews with an Italian-Canadian boy and girl
09. A Canadian Italian family at the table; you eat pasta and discuss in English and French; inq of teenage daughters and girls, grandmother
10. Interviews with family members
11. Views of Montreal's Italian Quarter; Shops Signs
12. Interviews with immigrants about life in Quebec
13. Interior: inq of families in their apartments
14. People on escalators, underground station and street
15. Interviews on the issue of ethnic differences in Quebec
16. Interview with a worker of Tuscan origin and his Franco Canadian wife
17. Views of Montreal's skyscrapers and palaces
18. The family of Tuscan origin discusses at the table, interview with his son, a teenage boy
19. Interview with a lady from Novara and her English husband
20. People shopping at the market; children and adults in the streets of the Italian quarter
21. Pp of a Canadian Italo ragazo and a man on the phone
22. People on the street, students
23. A Canadian bishop talks about the role of the church among immigrants; facade of the archbishop
24. Coffee Italy: customers, barista prerara coffee, various pp of young students
25. Views of the suburb of St. Léonard
26. Interviews with two women on the problem of language teaching in primary school
27. Children get on the school bus; interview with the director of an English-speaking private school; children play in the street
28. Interviews with Italian children; language lesson in an elementary school; children sing the Canadian national anthem. Children go out and get on the school bus
29. Interview (in French) with an Italian immigrant
30. Interview with a young French-speaking Italian on the independence of Quebec
31. Interview with a young English-speaking immigrant separatist
32. An alpine choir
33. People at the market, interviews
34. Catholic Mass; songs; communion
35. People in the streets in the neighborhood on Sunday morning; inq of first pages of Italian weekly
36. Inq of women at work in a packaging factory; immigrants who iron and machine sew singing Italian songs, interviews with workers
37. An airplane lands; passengers descend; embrace family members; the airport, room car on the highway and the city
38. Interior of a barber shop: the barber cuts hair to customers and discusses with them
39. Immigrants play billiards in the premises of the Sports Bar
40. Inq various of a marriage between immigrants of Sicilian origin: the bride and groom kiss; the guests, the wedding banquet, the group photographs with the bride and groom, the jokes, the dances, the orchestrina playing, interview with accordionist and an old lady; inq of cooks in the kitchen
41. The cook groceries at the supermarket, interviews
42. Interview with an Italian immigrant doctor, doctors, nurses and inpatient patients in a pediatrics department
43. Interview with an elderly immigrant business manager
44. A family party for a first communion;
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