Children of Fate: Life and Death in a Sicilian Family
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Music director John T. La Barbera Country United States | 7/10 IMDb Genre Documentary Duration Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Director Andrew Young
Susan Todd Release date 1993 Directors Michael Roemer, Andrew Young Awards Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize - U.S. Documentary Genres Documentary, Indie film, Biographical film, Black-and-white Similar movies Italianamerican (1974), Silverlake Life: The View from Here (1993), 51 Birch Street (2006), Recycled Life (2006), Legacy (2000) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Children of Fate: Life and Death in a Sicilian Family is a 1993 documentary film about life in the slums of Palermo, Sicily, directed by Andrew Young and Susan Todd.
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Plot
The film is a sequel to Cortile Cascino, a 1961 documentary shot by Andrew Young's father, Robert M. Young, which depicted the eponymous Palermo slum and told the story of Angela Capra and her family. Children of Fate picks up the story 30 years on, showing Capra now separated from her husband, and the fates of her children.
Awards
The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
References
Children of Fate: Life and Death in a Sicilian Family Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA
Children of Fate: Life and Death in a Sicilian Family IMDb Children of Fate: Life and Death in a Sicilian Family themoviedb.org