Miracle in Milan (1951)

1951 · 97 min · Comedy, Fantasy, Drama

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.

Directed by Vittorio De Sica. Starring Emma Gramatica, Francesco Golisano, Paolo Stoppa, Guglielmo Barnabò and Brunella Bovo.

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