Miracle in Milan

Miracle in Milan

1951 · 97 min · IT · 7.3 (275 votes)
Dir. Vittorio De Sica · Starring Emma Gramatica, Francesco Golisano, Paolo Stoppa, Guglielmo Barnabò, Brunella Bovo, Anna Carena · Music Alessandro Cicognini

“An impudent, riotous laugh on the lives and morals of our day!”

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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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A charmingly whimsical fable of hope blooming in the unlikeliest of places. It's a visually poetic, dreamlike journey through poverty and resilience, where magic intertwines with everyday struggles, leaving you with a warm, uplifting glow.

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