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Released
2010 · FILM

Welcome to the South

“When you come to the South you cry twice: when you arrive and when you leave.”

Directed by
Luca Miniero
Written by
Dany Boon, Alexandre Charlot
Runtime
102 min
Language
IT
Comedy

Synopsis

Alberto, a post office manager in a small town in Brianza, is under pressure from his wife, Sylvia, to secure a transfer to Milan. To achieve this, he is willing to go to any lengths, including pretending to be disabled in order to climb the ranks. However, the ruse fails, and as a result, he is instead transferred to a small town in Campania, a situation that feels like a nightmare to someone from the north.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 25

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Valentina MarianiShot by Paolo CarneraScored by Umberto ScipioneDesigned by Paola Comencini

Box Office

2010 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 16× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$65.6M

Budget$4.0M
Worldwide gross$65.6M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $45.9M — 70% of worldwide · International: $19.7M (30%)

Also known as

  • Willkommen im Südende
  • Welcome to the Southen
  • Bienvenidos al Sures

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