Mineurs

Story

Synopsis

The double meaning in french of film title MINEURS resume the sense of the film: mineurs as children and as mineworkers in the coalmines. Italy, at the beginning of the sixties. In a little village in Lucanie, little region in the south, four children live in a situation of absolute poverty, but with their plays in the street succeed in living in happiness. In the air the menace and, in the same time, the hope of a telephonic convocation by their relatives, already at work in coalmines in Belgie, in the mine district of Limburg. Two of our children leave with their families, to reach the numerous Italian community of Flandres. The children will have a lot of problems, in the school and with the language, to integrate in a hostile ambient, but, at the end the will succeed.

Director

Fulvio Wetzl

Writers

Fulvio Wetzl, Valeria Vaiano

Language

Italian

Release date

13 July 2007

Ensemble

Cast

• 

  Franco Nero

  Michele Acucella

• Valeria Vaiano

  Vitina Acucella

• 

  Antonino Iuorio

  Sagrestano Domenico

• 

  Cosimo Fusco

  Rocco Basile

• Ulderico Pesce

  Maestro Fernando

• 

  Lennart Lemmens

  Rogé