Miracle in Milan (1951)
Director: Vittorio De Sica
Actors: Emma Gramatica, Francesco Golisano, Paolo Stoppa
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Release: 1951
Region: All Region(Region Code:0)
Format: DVD, Ntsc, Full screen
Running Time: 92min
Audio: Dolby Digital 2.0
Language: Italian
Subtitle: English, Korean, None
Storyline:
An old woman finds a baby among the cauliflowers in her garden. She takes care of the orphan, and calls him Totò. When she dies, he is sent to an orphanage, which he leaves as a teenager. When Totò goes out in the world, he expects everyone to be open-hearted as himself, but it isn't so. Without belongings and a place to live, he soon turns up among other homeless people, living scattered in boxes and cement pipes on a vast, barren field outside Milano. With his energy and enthusiasm Totò quickly engages the outcasts in transforming the place into a small shanty town. The eccentric misfits are turned into a warm-hearted community. But among them is an egoist, a traitor. When squirts of oil suddenly springs up from the ground, he sneaks away and informs the wealthy Mr. Mobbi about it, who buys the land and tries to get rid of the outcasts. At this crucial moment, the spirit of Totò's dead mother appears, and gives him a magic dove. With its magic power he fulfills all wishes of the ...