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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.
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- Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
- Vittorio De Sica
- 1951-12-17
Feb 10, 2020 · What are we to make of Miracolo a Milano (Miracle in Milan, 1951), Vittorio De Sica’s comic fantasy about postwar poverty produced within the artistic parameters of neorealismo?
- Joseph Sgammato
Jan 22, 2021 · Its Chaplinesque star, Francesco Golisano—a nonprofessional actor and a superbly subtle physical comedian—plays Totò, a penniless orphan in a shantytown on the outskirts of Milan.
- Condé Nast
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.
- Totó
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.
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Vittorio De Sica. Once upon a time an old woman discovers a baby in her cabbage patch. She brings up the child and, when she dies, the boy, Toto, enters an orphanage. Toto leaves the orphanage a happy young man, and looks for work in post-war Milan.
