Four losers, one polling station, zero hope — Italian chaos at its finest.
During a hot Sunday afternoon in a small Southern Italian town, a school serving as a polling place is occupied by a group of three locals and an Eritrean immigrant, all unemployed, desperate and armed.
Acting
Silvio Orlando's sweaty, tragicomic breakdown — masterpiece.
Direction
Salvatores turns a locked room into claustrophobic Italy.
Director
Gabriele Salvatores
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot during Italy's 1992 political collapse, it captures the 'Southern Question' — the economic and cultural abandonment of Italy's Mezzogiorno.
Salvatores won the Oscar for Mediterraneo (1991) two years prior, making Sud his deliberately smaller, angrier follow-up.
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