Crossing Borders Page #3

Synopsis: Spain 1960, the dawn of the country's economic development. Industrial "reorganization" means that many workers have lost their jobs and are forced to emigrate. Martin is one of them. Martin, his wife Pilar and their son Pablito live with Mart'n's parents in a basement apartment that comes with their job as superintendents of the building. Encouraged by Marcos, his friend and co-worker, Martin decides to emigrate to Switzerland. The whole family has to admit that for the time being this is the most promising plan. Unable to obtain a work contract from the Swiss Consulate, Martin and Marcos decide to go anyway, pretending they are tourists to get past the border police. Pablito will experience drastic changes in a short period of time: his father's departure, a new way of life in a different country with a different environment and learning another language. But afterwards, in Switzerland, they will face new experiences which will allow them to live with renewed happiness.
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Director(s): Carlos Iglesias
  5 wins & 8 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.1
Year:
2006
102 min
58 Views


No water, the toilet's blocked

and we've stopped again.

The sea!

I've never seen it before.

I saw it during the war

when I was sent to Valencia.

Next stop:
The French border.

Excuse me,

the train for Switzerland?

- You're going to Switzerland?

- Yes!

It's the Geneva train, on platform 2.

Hurry or we'll miss it.

Thanks for the salami, it's terrific.

Eat up, we have to finish it.

The Swiss are fanatical

and now, with the swine fever,

you can't bring this in.

- Where are you going?

- To a little town.

A place called Uzwil.

- Are you sure it's in Switzerland?

- Yes.

Are you sure?

Yes.

I saw it on the map.

It's in the north.

The north? That's the industrial area,

the German part.

- A good area?

- You bet!

You've got work permits, right?

You don't have papers?

We waited two months

for the papers from the Gonsulate.

In the end,

we decided to come in as tourists.

That's how I got in the first time,

but now...

My cousin tried recently

and didn't get in.

Sh*t!

Gome on, eat up.

We have to finish this.

Good morning.

Sh*t!

Do you like it?

It's all green, like where I'm from,

but the mountains are higher

and better tended.

Those mountains are the Swiss Alps.

You'd better waken your friend.

We're nearly there.

If they don't want immigrants

they won't let them in.

Good morning, Lorenzo.

Really! Gome along, mother.

It says so clearly.

Well,

they're going as tourists.

They look nothing like tourists.

Love, they're not going

to shoot them!

I don't know

why he had to go so far.

There's plenty of work here.

Were you getting on that badly?

And you in your village?

Sh*t!

I didn't know you were twins!

Dammit anyway!

Do you not have

to pass through customs?

Of course I do.

I go in the other line,

for people with work permits.

If you want to go in as tourists,

you must have a minimum...

We've got enough for that.

I've got 15,000 and he's got 20,000

that we got for...

Hell, that's enough.

Anyway, we're not here to spend,

we're here to make money.

Right!

Two, two. Go on, you two.

Good luck!

And my family made the sausages

themselves, dammit.

You still have a salami sandwich.

You still have a salami sandwich.

Tourists!

- The money!

- The money!

- Were you counting the sandwiches?

- Yes, there's still a salami one.

I told you.

Holy sh*t!

And those two...

Good morning.

Maybe something's happened.

What was that about?

Martin, I think we're at the factory.

Thank you.

What's up? Is there no one

living in this country?

Look, there's a bicycle.

- Madrid. Spanish.

- Milling mechanics.

Yes, we've come to work,

both of us.

He's saying something about a fair.

Maybe it's closed

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