From the internationally acclaimed director of Respiro, THE GOLDEN DOOR is a moving yet unsentimental film of mythic resonance which tells the story of the early years of mass Italian immigration to the United States.
Sicily. The beginning of the twentieth century. In a desolate corner of the Sicilian countryside lives a family of peasants who have worked the same land for generations. The hard monotony of daily life is interrupted by tales of the New World and its inhabitants, of the riches promised by this far-away paradise. Salvatore makes the momentous decision to sell all he has – his land, his home, his livestock - and to take his children and aged mother to a better life across the ocean.
THE GOLDEN DOOR is directed by Emanuele Crialese, whose previous films include Once Were Strangers, and Respiro which won the Cannes Critics’ Week Award in 2002.
