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Ernesto
GERMANY · 1979

Ernesto

Salvatore Samperi
sexual identity coming of age forbidden romance Jewish identity class difference
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Synopsis

Ernesto is a young Italian Jew of the early 1900s who works in his uncle's factory in Trieste. Not entirely secure with his sexual orientation, Ernesto enters into an affair with one of his uncle's employees.

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