Heiners Filmseiten – Salvatore

Salvatore – This is Life (Salvatore – Questa è la vita)

German title: Salvatore – Das ist das Leben
Spain title: Salvatore – Así es la vida
Russian title: Сальваторе – это и есть жизнь
Original title: Salvatore – Questa è la vita

Alternative titles:
Salvatore – So ist das Leben / Такова жизнь, Сальваторе

Drama – Italy
Production year: 2006
Movie length: 90 minutes

Director: Gian Paolo Cugno
Writer: Gian Paolo Cugno, Paolo Di Reda
Cinematograph: Gino Sgreva
Music: Paolo Vivaldi

Movie description:

Salvatore is a young orphan, living in Sicily with his younger sister and his grandmother; after losing his father in a tragic way he quits school and starts working as a fisherman and a farmer in order to support his little family. The Social Services soon discover the situation and resolve to put Salvatore in an orphanage, parting him from his family. Only a young, idealistic teacher tries to help him, going every day after school to his house, to teach him the lessons he misses in the morning and to work with him in his greenhouse or on his fishing boat.

Marco Brioni, a young elementary school teacher living a quiet life in Rome, is suddenly offered a one year teaching position in a small Sicilian town. The decision to accept this new teaching job will change his life forever ... In Sicily he meets Salvatore, an orphan who has lost both of his parents, and who must deal with unusual circumstances and responsibilities for a boy of his age. He lives with his grandmother Maria and younger sister Mariuccia in a little house by the sea. Salvatore supports his grandmother and sister by going to work at the tomato warehouse that had belonged to his father and catching fish for them to eat right in front of their home. Working and living like an adult doesn’t leave him any time for school. Marco, who takes Salvatore’s situation to heart, will end up going to his house to give him lessons and the two of them will become inseparable. Salvatore sees Marco as the father he never had and vice versa. In the end Marco will become so involved in Salvatore’s own life that he will endanger the little boy’s livelihood, causing a social worker to intervene ...

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