19/06/2003

Emanuele Crialese has returned to New York, the city he lived in for a long time and also where he took his first tentative steps in the film world after graduating from the Film Department of the Tisch School of Arts. Crialese is scheduled to direct the follow up to his highly acclaimed and multiple award-winning debut feature, Respiro [+see also:
trailer
film profile], in the Big Apple. Given the provisional title of The Golden Door, the film is set on Ellis Island, where 22 million immigrants to the United States disembarked and were registered by the authorities between 1892 and 1924.

(Translated from Italian)