Film · Drama, Comedy, Fantasy
Miracle in Milan (1951)
An impudent, riotous laugh on the lives and morals of our day!
Once upon a time a wise and kind old woman discovers a baby in her cabbage patch. She brings up the child and, when she dies, the boy, Totò, enters an orphanage. Totò leaves the orphanage a happy young man, and looks for work in post-war Milan. He ends up with the homeless and organizes them to build a shanty town in a vacant lot. But when greedy developers threaten the community’s land, Totò will need all the help he can get in order to find an impossible way out.
- Director
- Vittorio De Sica
- Writers
- Suso Cecchi d'Amico, Cesare Zavattini, Adolfo Franci
- Country
- Italy
- Language
- Italian
- Release date
- February 8, 1951
- Original title
- Miracolo a Milano
Cast
Emma GramaticaLa vecchia Lolotta- Francesco GolisanoTotò
Paolo StoppaRappi
Guglielmo BarnabòMobbi
Brunella BovoEdvige- Anna CarenaMarta, la signora altezzosa
Alba ArnovaLa statua che prende vita- Flora CambiL'innamorata infelice
Virgilio RientoIl sergente delle guardie
Arturo BragagliaAlfredo- Erminio SpallaGaetano
- Riccardo BertazzoloL'atleta
Checco RissoneIl comandante in secondo- Angelo PrioliIl comandante in primo
Enzo Furlai- Renato Navarrini
Egisto Olivieri- Jubal Schembri
- Jerome Johnson
- Gianni BranduaniTotò a 11 anni (uncredited)
