Miracle in Milan
- Comedy
- Drama
- Fantasy
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.
- Directed by
- Vittorio De Sica
- Written by
- Cesare Zavattini, Vittorio De Sica
- Based on
- Cesare Zavattini
Cast
- Emma Gramatica
- Francesco Golisano
- Paolo Stoppa
- Guglielmo Barnabò
- Brunella Bovo
- Anna Carena
- Alba Arnova
- Flora Cambi
- Virgilio Riento
- Arturo Bragaglia
- Erminio Spalla
- Riccardo Bertazzolo
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The Couples
Shoeshine
Sunflower
Two Women
The Roof