Welcome to the South

(2010)

★ 6.7 IMDb · 1,878 votes

Genres: Comedy

Year: 2010

Runtime: 102 мин

Country: Germany, Italy

Director: Luca Miniero

Cast: Claudio Bisio, Alessandro Siani, Анджела Финоккьяро, Valentina Lodovini, Nando Paone, Riccardo Zinna, Нунциа Скьяно, Salvatore Misticone, Francesco Albanese, Naike Rivelli

Plot

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 ...

Overwhelmed by his wife, a postal worker from Northern Italy feigns disability to request a transfer to Milan. When he's unmasked, he is sent to a tiny village near Naples for two years. He moves there alone, scared and full of the typical prejudice about the south. But he meets lovely people who quickly make him feel at home. Now the challenge is to explain this to his wife, so he chooses to make her believe that his life is hell. A remake of the French film "Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis."