The immigrant (The immigrant)
Directed by: James GrayCast list: Marion Cotillard (Ewa Cybulska), Joaquin Phoenix (Bruno Weiss), Jeremy Renner (Orlando), Dagmara Dominczyk (Belva), Angela Sarafyan (Magda), Jicky Schnee (Clara)
Country: USA
Year: 2013
Genres: Romantic / Drama /
Runtime: 120 min.
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In 1921, Ewa Cybulska and her sister Magda arrive from Poland at Ellis Island, New York, full of guarded optimism. But things go wrong immediately: doctors quarantine Magda, and Ewa discovers that she has been branded a "woman of low moral standing" during passage. Scheduled for a deportation hearing, she is rescued by the enigmatic and hot-tempered Bruno Weiss, who seems to have questionable connections with the immigration authorities. Bruno can secure Magda's release, and Ewa is so desperate to earn the money to do so that she reluctantly assents to join Bruno's stable of prostitutes... even as Bruno seems to be falling for her. Things are complicated further when Bruno's cousin Emil, aka "Orlando the Magician," meets Ewa and is instantly smitten. But with the suffering Ewa at the center, this will be no ordinary love triangle.
Educational Grades: ##COMA####COMA####COMA####COMA####COMA####COMA##Sixth form college##COMA##Further education##COMA##Further Edu, mature students##COMA##Higher Education##COMA##
Subjects: English language / Citizenship (Sixth Form College) / History /
Topics: education in human values / natural resources, wealth and poverty, commerce, consumption / women (and/or violence against women) / sexuality, heterosexuality, homosexuality, abortion / cultural diversity, immigration, emigration / world of work, employment relationships / human relations, psychology, sociology / alcoholisme, drugaddictions / family, family relationships / human rights / judicial system, prisons, death penalty / politics, political systems /
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