This paper aims at analyzing Gertrud Pinkus’s docu-fiction Il valore della donna è il suo silenzio (1980), a Swiss and German coproduction, its genesis, and its circulation amongst Italian migrant women in Switzerland. Pinkus’s film is one of the few works of the twentieth century that deals with Italian emigration from a gendered perspective. It tells the story of a woman who emigrates from the South of Italy to the city of Frankfurt.