Miracle in Milan (1951)
February 8, 1951
Comedy, Fantasy, Drama
1h 37m


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.
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Cast & Crew
- Director
- Vittorio De Sica
- La vecchia Lolotta Emma Gramatica
- Rappi Paolo Stoppa
- Mobbi Guglielmo Barnabò
- Edvige Brunella Bovo
- Marta, la signora altezzosa Anna Carena
- La statua che prende vita Alba Arnova
- Il sergente delle guardie Virgilio Riento
- Alfredo Arturo Bragaglia
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Keywords
- homeless person
- based on novel or book
- slum
- magic
- angel
- milan
- poverty
- orphan
- kindness
- foundling
- magic realism
- shantytown