''Sud'', also known as ''South'',
is a 1993 Italian drama film directed by
Gabriele Salvatores
Gabriele Salvatores (born 30 July 1950) is an Italian Academy Award-winning film director and screenwriter.
Biography
Born in Naples, Salvatores debuted as a theatre director in 1972, founding in Milan the Teatro dell'Elfo, for which he directe ...
.
The movie won the
Best Score award and was nominated for Best Original Story at the 1994
Nastro d'Argento
The Nastro d'Argento, also known by its translated name Silver Ribbon, is an Italian film award awarded each year since 1946 by the Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists (Italian: ''Sindacato Nazionale Giornalisti Cinematografici Italiani ...
ceremony.
It also won the
Best Sound award and was nominated for
Best Score at the 1994
David di Donatello.
For his performance,
Silvio Orlando
Silvio Orlando (born 30 June 1957) is an Italian actor.
Orlando was born and raised in Naples, where he started acting in theatre in 1976. He made his film debut in 1988 with a supporting role in the comedy '' Kamikazen: Last Night in Milan'' ...
was nominated for the 1994
David di Donatello for Best Actor
The David di Donatello Award for Best Actor (Italian: ''David di Donatello per il miglior attore protagonista'') is a film award presented annually by the Accademia del Cinema Italiano (ACI, ''Academy of Italian Cinema'') to recognize the outst ...
.
Plot
During a warm springy Sunday afternoon in a small town of South Italy, the opening of the polling place is disrupted by three
Italian
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* Anything of, from, or related to the people of Italy over the centuries
** Italians, an ethnic group or simply a citizen of the Italian Republic or Italian Kingdom
** Italian language, a Romance language
*** Regional Ita ...
citizens and one
Eritrean, who are unemployed, angry and armed. They threaten to occupy the school designed for the poll. They start to negotiate with the police, but eventually the four men are forced to leave.
Cast
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Silvio Orlando
Silvio Orlando (born 30 June 1957) is an Italian actor.
Orlando was born and raised in Naples, where he started acting in theatre in 1976. He made his film debut in 1988 with a supporting role in the comedy '' Kamikazen: Last Night in Milan'' ...
: Ciro
*
Gigio Alberti
Gigio Alberti (born 19 June 1956) is an Italian actor.
Background
Born in Milan as Luigi Alberti, he studied at the acting school of the Piccolo Teatro, graduating in 1981. His career is mainly associated to Gabriele Salvatores, with whom he ...
: Gianni
*
Claudio Bisio
Claudio Bisio (; born 19 March 1957) is an Italian actor, presenter, voice actor, comedian, and writer.
Early life
Bisio was born in Novi Ligure, Piedmont, and raised in Milan, Lombardy. He attended '' scientific lyceum Luigi Cremona'' of Mi ...
: Giacomo Fiori
*
Renato Carpentieri
Renato Carpentieri (born 2 April 1943) is an Italian actor, stage director and playwright.
Life and career
Born in Savignano Irpino, Avellino, Carpentieri studied architecture in Naples, where from 1965 to 1974 he was engaged in the organizatio ...
: Cannavacciuolo
*
Antonio Catania
Antonio Catania (born 22 February 1952) is an Italian actor.
Life and career
Born in Acireale, Province of Catania, Antonio Catania studied acting at the Drama School of the Piccolo Teatro in Milan. After the graduation he started an intense ...
: Elia
*
Marco Manchisi: Michele
*
Ighèzu Mussiè: Munir
*
Francesca Neri
Francesca Neri (born 10 February 1964) is an Italian actress.
Biography
Neri was born in Trento, Italy. She has twice received the Silver Ribbon Award for Best Actress from the Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists, for ''Pensavo foss ...
: Lucia
*
Antonio Petrocelli
Antonio Petrocelli (born 18 September 1953) is an Italian actor.
Partial filmography Film
* '' The Pool Hustlers'' (1982)
* '' The Eyes, the Mouth'' (1982)
* '' Secrets Secrets'' (1985)
* '' Il tenente dei carabinieri'' (1986)
* ''The Strangene ...
: Colonel
Reception
The film performed well in the run up to Christmas grossing over $3 million in Italy.
See also
* List of Italian films of 1993
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People
* List (surname)
Organizations
* List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America
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References
External links
*
''Sud''
at Variety Distribution
Variety Distribution is an Italian-based film distribution company.
It distributes Italian films worldwide, produced from the 1930s onward.
History
Variety Distribution (formerly Variety Film and Variety Communications) has been in the film p ...
1993 films
Films directed by Gabriele Salvatores
Italian drama films
1990s Italian-language films
Colorado Films films
1990s Italian films
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