Welcome to the South

Welcome to the South

When you come to the South you cry twice: when you arrive and when you leave.

2010102 min6.7 / 10

A comedic fish-out-of-water story about a northern Italian bureaucrat exiled to the south, built on cultural stereotypes and the gradual discovery of warmth in an unfamiliar community.

Alberto, post office manager of a small town in Brianza, under pressure of his wife Sylvia, is willing to do anything to get the transfer to Milan. Even pretending to be disabled to climb in the ranking. But the trick does not work and as punishment, he is transferred in a small town in Campania, which to an inhabitant of the north is equivalent to a nightmare ...

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