La Sarrasine (1991)

La Sarrasine is a Canadian drama film, released in 1991. Directed by Paul Tana and written by Tana and Bruno Ramirez, the film stars Tony Nardi and Enrica Maria Modugno as Giuseppe and Ninetta Moschella, Italian immigrants in Montreal. One day, Giuseppe breaks up a fight between a Sicilian tenant of the Moschellas' boarding house and Theo (Gilbert Sicotte), a French Canadian labourer who is also the son-in-law of Giuseppe's friend Alphonse Lamoureux (Jean Lapointe), and is put on trial for murder after his intervention results in Theo's accidental death. The film's cast also includes Gaetano Cisco Cimarosa and Johanne-Marie Tremblay.

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