Sud Side Stori

Sud Side Stori

2000 · 87 min · ★ 7.0 · Comedy, Romance, Music

In Roberta Torre's "true story of Romeo and Julet", Toni Giulietto is a vulnerable street singer and Little Tony-impersonator (who is himself an Italian Elvis-impersonator) who is constantly deceived and hoodwinked by almost everyone he knows. Romea is an attractive Nigerian immigrant who sells sex on the streets of Palermo to pay off her huge fee to the man who smuggled her in to the country. Various characters plot against each other and the plots, which draw in people from all the different social strata, spiral out of control as the tug-of-war between these different factions of Sicilian society is fought to the last.

Directed by Roberta Torre · Written by Franco Maresco

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Forstine Ehobor Romea
Roberto Rondelli Toni Giulietto
Mario Merola Re Vulcano
Little Tony King of Rock'N Roll
Eleonora Teriaca Zia Eleonora
Rosa D'Alba Zia Rosa
Giuseppa Vella Zia Dora
Gloria Amaka Ejindu Mercutia
Kemi Toyin Baldassarra
Mimma De Rosalia Giuseppona La Sbirra
Francesca Di Cesare Fidanzata Tradita
Dennis Curtis Bovell Pasquale Napo

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