Synopsis

As many ethnic groups in Europe, the inhabitants of the Swiss canton Grison have their own emigration history. But the promised land was not America. It was Russia, Poland, Spain or Italy. The ingredients of their emigration were poverty, sugar, home sickness, a pinch of pestilence and the desire for adventure. The result: The pastry makers. Thousands of young Grison boys left their valleys between 1600 and 1900 in order to become confectioners abroad. But why confectioners? Manfred Ferrari follows their trace and finds the last Grison dynasties of pastry makers in Italy.

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• Credits

  With

  Dolf Kaiser

  Florio Pult

  Lucia Nadin

  Gino Zanin

  Julia Holloway

  Carla Schucani

  Dora Grass

  Giacomo Grass

  Roberto Grass

  Director

  Manfred Ferrari

  Camera

  Pierre Mennel

  Sound

  Matteo de Pellegrini

  Editing

  Heidi Odermatt

  Production

  Hercli Bundi

  Commissioning Editor TvR

  Mariano Tschuor

  Felix Karrer

  With support from

  Kulturförderung Kanton Graubünden

  Promoziun da la cultura Chantun Grischun

  Corporaziun dals cumüns concessiunaris da las OEE

  Biblioteca Engiadinaisa

• Technical Details

  Format	Digibeta
  Duration	24 min
  Year	2004
  Original Language	Rumantsch, Italian
  Subtitles	German
  Country	Switzerland
  ISAN	0000-0000-D7F2-0000-Z