MOVIE · 1994
Lamerica
ComedyDrama116 min
In the chaotic aftermath of communism in early 1990s Albania, two Italian businessmen arrive with a scheme to take over a state-owned shoe factory and turn local desperation into quick profit. To make the deal legal, they need a figurehead Albanian owner, so they pull an elderly man out of a prison hospital and place him at the center of the paperwork. What begins as a cynical business trip keeps slipping out of control as crowds of migrants, broken institutions, and the country’s poverty close in around them. As one partner disappears, the other is left moving through an unfamiliar landscape where fraud, survival, and identity become harder to separate.
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