Mineurs backdrop

Mineurs 2007 Directed by Fulvio Wetzl

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.

Country Italy
Language Italian
Spoken Languages Dutch , Italian
Gnere Drama
Release Date 13 July 2007
123 mins
Cast
Franco Nero Michele Acucella
Valeria Vaiano Vitina Acucella
Antonino Iuorio Sagrestano Domenico
Cosimo Fusco Rocco Basile
Ulderico Pesce Maestro Fernando