Sud
★ 6.8 · 1993 · 86m · Comedy · Drama
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.
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