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Miracle in Milan (Italian: Miracolo a Milano) is a 1951 Italian fantasy comedy film directed by Vittorio De Sica. The screenplay was co-written by Cesare Zavattini, based on his novel Totò il Buono. The picture stars Francesco Golisano, Emma Gramatica, Paolo Stoppa, and Guglielmo Barnabò.
Miracle in Milan: Directed by Vittorio De Sica. With Emma Gramatica, Francesco Golisano, Paolo Stoppa, Guglielmo Barnabò. An open-hearted, unrelentingly energetic orphan struggles to make the best of his life on the streets of Milan.
When Lolotta (Emma Gramatica) finds a baby in her cabbage patch, she raises him as her own. Years later, Lolotta dies, and young Toto (Francesco Golisano) quickly bounces from the orphanage to the...
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Miracle in Milan. Renowned filmmaker Vittorio De Sica followed up his international triumph Bicycle Thieves with this enchantingly playful neorealist fairy tale, in which he combines his celebrated slice-of-life poetry with flights of graceful comedy and storybook fantasy.
Jan 22, 2021 · Fantasy casts a lurid light on unbearable realities in this political comedy by Vittorio De Sica, from 1951. Italy’s crises of employment and housing are the subjects of its sentimental story ...
Jan 7, 1991 · Miracle in Milan, despite certain realistic overtones capable of varied, even antithetical, interpretations on the social level, is simply a fairy story and only intended as such.
An open-hearted, unrelentingly energetic orphan struggles to make the best of his life on the streets of Milan. An old woman finds a baby among the cabbages in her garden; she takes care of him and calls him Totò. When she dies, he is sent to an orphanage, which he leaves as a teenager.
