Palermo or Wolfsburg

6.8

Genre: Plot
Premiere: 1980
Running time: 2h 53m
Country: Switzerland

This film begins in the town of Palermo, where the film's central figure, Nicola, is a young victim of Sicily's high rate of unemployment. He decides to leave Palermo for Wolfsburg in Germany in search of employment. Along with Fassbinder's Angst essen Seele auf (1973), Schroeter's film becomes one of a handful of films to broach the subject of the difficulties foreigners faced...