The great inheritance
Director Fosco Dubini, Donatello Dubini
Countries Germany, Switzerland
Duration 92 min
Synopsis
The film begins as a treasure hunt for hidden gold and silver coins in the charred remains of a burned-out house and ends up as socio-ethnological study of an it immigrant family in a small mountain village in Ticino, the it region of CH. The story is told from the perspective of the grandchildren, whose generation grew up in Zurich. They know their parent’s Ticino village only from vacations, and their Grandparent’s it homeland only from stories. A film about migration, integration and exclusion.
The film begins as a treasure hunt for hidden gold and silver coins in the charred remains of a burned-out house and ends up as socio-ethnological study of an it immigrant family in a small mountain village in Ticino, the it region of CH. The story is told from the perspective of the grandchildren, whose generation grew up in Zurich. They know their parent’s Ticino village only from vacations, and their Grandparent’s it homeland only from stories. A film about migration, integration and exclusion.