Miracle in Milan

Miracolo a Milano

“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.

Director

Vittorio De Sica

Screenplay

Vittorio De Sica

Novela

Cesare Zavattini

Screenplay

Cesare Zavattini

Status

Released

Release date

08/02/1951

Original language

Italian