Bread and Chocolate

Bread and Chocolate
(Pane e cioccolata)
DVD cover
Directed byFranco Brusati
Written byFranco Brusati
Jaja Fiastri
Nino Manfredi
Produced byMaurizio Lodi-Fe
Turi Vasile
StarringNino Manfredi
Johnny Dorelli
Anna Karina
CinematographyLuciano Tovoli
Edited byMario Morra
Music byDaniele Patucchi
Distributed byCinéma International Corporation
Release dates
  • 1974 (1974) (Italy, France)
  • July 14, 1978 (1978-07-14) (USA)
Running time
111 minutes[1]
CountryItaly
LanguagesItalian
German
English
Box office$1.7 million[2]

Bread and Chocolate (Italian: Pane e cioccolata) is a 1974 Italian comedy-drama film directed by Franco Brusati. This film chronicles the misadventures of an Italian immigrant to Switzerland and is representative of the commedia all'italiana film genre. In 2008, the film was included on the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage’s 100 Italian films to be saved, a list of 100 films that "have changed the collective memory of the country between 1942 and 1978."[3]

  1. ^ Canby, Vincent (July 14, 1978), "Movie Review — Pane e Cioccolata (1973)", The New York Times, retrieved December 24, 2009
  2. ^ Donahue, Suzanne Mary (1987). American film distribution : the changing marketplace. UMI Research Press. p. 296. Please note figures are for rentals in US and Canada
  3. ^ "Ecco i cento film italiani da salvare Corriere della Sera". www.corriere.it. Archived from the original on 2023-07-11. Retrieved 2021-03-11.