Miracle in Milan = Miracolo a Milano / Cineteca Bologna ; Compass Film ; a film by Vittorio De Sica ; story by Cesare Zavattini ; script by Cesare Zavattini and Vittorio De Sica ; with the collaboration of Suso Cecchi D'Amico, Mario Chiari, Adolfo Franci ; produced by Soc. Produzioni De Sica ; in association with l'E.N.I.C. ; produced and directed by Vittorio De Sica.
Edition:
DVD special edition.
Publisher:
The Criterion Collection,
Copyright Date:
2022
Description:
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
English title taken from DVD menu screen. Based on the novel "Toto il buono" by Cesare Zavattini. Originally released as a motion picture in 1951. Aspect ratio 1.37:1. Special features: new 4K digital restoration; new interview with neorealism expert and film scholar David Forgacs; late 1960s audio interview with director Vittorio Da Sica; interviews with actor Brunella Bovo and Manuel De Sica, the director's son; feature-length 2019 documentary on screenwriter Cesare Zavattini; trailers. Emma Gramatica, Francesco Golisano, Paolo Stoppa, Guglielmo Barnabò, Brunella Bovo, Anna Carena.
Summary:
Renowned filmmaker Vittorio De Sica followed up his international triumph Bicycle Thieves with this enchantingly playful neorealist fairy tale, in which he combines his celebrated slice-of-life poetry with flights of graceful comedy and storybook fantasy. On the outskirts of Milan, a band of vagabonds works together to form a shantytown. When it is discovered that the land they occupy contains oil, however, it's up to the cherubic orphan Tot ̣with some divine help to save their community from greedy developers. Tipping their hats to the imaginative whimsy of Charles Chaplin and René Clair, De Sica and screenwriter Cesare Zavattini, adapting his novel, craft a big-hearted ode to the nobility of everyday people.
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