«Palermo or Wolfsburg»
PALERMO OR WOLFSBURG deliberately presents a view of the Federal Republic's reconstruction phase, in which life is only administered and bureaucratized, "a land where there is no light, no love, only work" and an idealized, exoticized, original "homeland".
About the film: Work is scarce in Sicily, so 18-year-old Nicola follows a number of his compatriots to cold Germany. He finds a job at Volkswagen in Wolfsburg and falls in love with Brigitte, a car mechanic. But she only uses him to make her German friends jealous. In a quarrel, Nicola kills the two men and only regains himself in court.
A film by Werner Schroeter, 1980
