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A Balasaur Score of 79 out of 100, drawn from IMDb 7.6/10, Rotten Tomatoes 93%, Metacritic 78/100. Scores higher than 88% of the 260 1950s comedy movies in this catalog. Streaming on Max.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb7.6/10
Rotten Tomatoes93%
Metacritic78/100
271 audience votes
Key crew
- Vittorio De SicaDirector
- Vittorio De SicaScreenplay
- Cesare ZavattiniScreenplay
- Alessandro CicogniniOriginal Music Composer
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
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Themes
homeless personbased on novel or bookslummagicangelmilanpovertyorphankindnessfoundlingmagic realismshantytown