Side Street Story

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 Filippowho has a penchant for innocently getting into trouble and his friend Pasquale Toto The latter is a railsweeper who becomes a professional standina corpse used to conceal contrabandserving jail time for those who dont care to spend the time to do the timea substitute at a political rally when violence threatens the scheduled speaker