Immigrants

Also known as Emigrantes

Immigrants is a 1948 drama film directed by and starring Aldo Fabrizi.

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Immigrants (Italian: Emigrantes) is a 1948 Argentine-Italian drama film directed by and starring Aldo Fabrizi and also featuring Ave Ninchi, Nando Bruno and Loredana. The film's sets were designed by the art director Abel López Chas. It was produced during the Classical Era of Argentine Cinema.

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Plot

At war's end, Giuseppe emigrates to Argentina.

Cast

Aldo Fabrizi as Giuseppe Bordoni

Ave Ninchi as Adele Bordoni

Nando Bruno as Gigi

Loredana as Maria Bordoni

Adolfo Celi as Il professore

Eduardo Passarelli as Gennarino

Iván Grondona

Giuseppe Rinaldi

Michele Malaspina

Rino Salviati

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Also known as Emigrantes

Notable quotes

“If foreigners were allowed to meddle with the affairs of a nation as soon as they arrived, many dangers might occur, since the foreigners not yet having the common good firmly at heart might strive for certain goals in opposition to the people”
— Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, 1-2.105.3
“The economic impact of immigration is a complex issue and one that simple models of supply and demand do not address very well.”
— Susan B. Carter and Richard Sutch, “The Immigration Debate: Studies on the Economic, Demographic, and Fiscal Effects of Immigration”, ch.8, “Historical Background to Current Immigration Issues”, (1998), p.290
“Across the globe, a record number of people are being forced from their homes. The number of forcibly displaced individuals worldwide has increased from 33.9 million in 2010 to 65.3 million in 2015. Of these, 21.3 million are United Nations-recognized refugees; 37.5 million are internally displaced within their home countries; and 3.7 million are stateless.”
— “The Facts on Immigration Today: 2017 Edition“, Center for American Progress, (April 20, 2017)
“The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt.”
— Leviticus 19:34 NIV
“I maintain that the primary approach to solving the housing problem in the Greater Vancouver area lies in the immediate reduction and future control of immigration”
— Art Phillips according to Douglas Todd: Vancouver's housing crisis four decades in the making December 31, 2016
“[I]n the first centuries of the modern State's existence unauthorized emigration was tantamount to treason and was punishable by death or enslavement. The resilience of this concept is confirmed by its persistence, in more recent times, as the hallmark of the "totalitarian" States.”
— p.155

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