VCL Film Evening: Marina

When
16 Oct 2014
19:00
Location
Flanders House, 1A Cavendish Square, London W1G 0LD

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Flanders House and Vlaamse Club Londen would like to invite you to a screening of the award-winning film Marina (2013).

Marina is a biographical film released in 2013 and directed by Stijn Coninx. The film is based upon the life of the Italian singer Rocco Granata who moved to Belgium when he was a young boy.

The screening (please note the film is Dutch spoken and does NOT have English subtitles) will take place on Thursday 16 October 2014 at 7pm at Flanders House (1A Cavendish Square, London W1G 0LD). This is a free event but places are limited so please register to secure your place (including people who have rsvp’d through Facebook). Nibbles and drinks will be provided.

Synopsis

Salvatore Granata is a rather poor man who lives with his wife, son and daughter in Calabria in Italy. One day Salvatore decides to move to Belgium to work in the coal mine of Waterschei as a "gastarbeider," an immigrant worker. His family will stay in Italy as Salvatore will only be in Belgium for three years. He hopes to earn much money in a rather small time frame so he can buy a forge for his son Rocco who is now still a 9 year old boy. After a year, Salvatore decides his family should be with him, so they also move to Belgium. They soon discover the life of a "gastarbeider" is difficult: they have to live in some kind of barracks, they are neglected by the Belgian people and they do not earn much. They are astonished when they hear Salvatore signed a contract of five years and children of "gastarbeiders" ought to work in the mines as soon they leave high school. Rocco meets Helena, the daughter of the local grocer. However, the man is a racist and forbids his daughter to play with Italian boys.

Official website

We look forward to seeing you at the screening.