Side Street Story (1950)

A combination of a satire on war and a comedy with war as the background. It tells of the ordinary people living on a Naples sidestreet, from 1940 to 1950 under the dominance of the Fascists, the Nazis and then the Allies occupation forces. Primary among the citizens is Gennaro Iovine (Eduard De Filippo)who has a penchant for innocently getting into trouble, and his friend Pasquale (Toto.) The latter is a rail-sweeper who becomes a professional stand-in...a corpse used to conceal contraband...serving jail time for those who don't care to spend the time to do the time...a substitute at a political rally when violence threatens the scheduled speaker

Released

1950-09-21

Genres

Comedy

Runtime

91 min

Status

Released

Directed / written by

Eduardo De Filippo, Eduardo De Filippo, Dino Maiuri, Piero Tellini

TMDB rating

7.4/10 from 42 votes