The Immigrant
About The Immigrant
Antonio's family sells the furniture they can spare, cheap, to a junk dealer, so he can buy a passage. At the market he is robbed of part of the money. He buys a frame for photographs of his wife and his daughter Maria, gives a coin to a beggar, and sails. In the Americas he bribes a foreman and gets a building job for a few pesos. He is hurt at work and taken to a hospital. A letter from Maria says her mother is ill and the medicine costs too much. The company gets him to sign away any payment. Lawyers will not take a client who cannot pay them. He is sent out of the hospital unfit for the job, and he goes home.
Cast & crew
More about The Immigrant
Febo Mari wrote and directed it for Itala Film. Natale Chiusano photographed it. Ermete Zacconi plays Antonio. Valentina Frascaroli plays Maria. Enrichetta Sabbatini plays his wife. Felice Minotti plays a fellow worker. Amerigo Manzini plays a count. Lucia Cisello plays a go-between. A timed copy runs 23 minutes 36 seconds. The Italian title is L'emigrante.
Themes
Making
Mari shot Zacconi's crossing and the injury. The print now shown is shorter than the release: the count and the daughter's story are gone from it.
Look
Natale Chiusano photographed the market, the ship, and the building site.
Preservation
The circulating print is cut. The count and the daughter's later story are missing from it.
Notes
- The circulating copy ends when he comes home. A title on that print says that beside the happy couple he can forget the past.
- Papers on the original add a further stretch: Maria, to pay for her mother's care, is taken to a count through a go-between, and Antonio finds out and brings her back.
- The job is in South America. The wage is counted in pesos.
- Frascaroli's scenes are among the ones cut from the print that circulates.
Scenes
- The family sells furniture to a junk dealer.
- Antonio is robbed at the market and still buys a picture frame.
- The company has him waive payment for the injury.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (L'emigrante (1915).webm)
