What do Italian guest-workers do when they get home, after a hard day's work on one of the many new building sites in Berlin? They talk, get bored, phone home. They try to survive. Berlino is a moving documentary about displacement.
Berlino is of 0 hour(s) and 26 minute(s). It is Produced By: . It was released on 1999-01-01.
Genres: Documentary
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