Miracolo a Milano / Cineteca Bologna ; Compass Film ; un film di Vittorio De Sica ; soggetto di Cesare Zavattini ; sceneggiatura di Cesare Zavattini e Vittorio De Sica con la collaborazione di Suso Cecchi D'Amico, Mario Chiari, Adolfo Franci ; realizzato dalla Soc. Produzioni De Sica in associazione con l'E.N.I.C. ; regia, Vittorio De Sica.
Edition:
Blu-ray special edition.
Publisher:
The Criterion Collection,
Copyright Date:
2022
Description:
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (27 pages : illustrations ; 17 cm)
Container of (work): Miracolo a Milano (Motion picture)
Notes:
Emma Gramatica, Francesco Golisano, Paolo Stoppa, Guglielmo Barnabò, Brunella Bovo, Anna Carena. Based on the novel "Totò il buono" by Cesare Zavattini. Originally released as a motion picture in 1951. Full screen (1.37:1). Special features: new 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack; new interview with neorealism expert and film scholar David Forgacs; audio interview from the late 1960s in which director Vittorio De Sica looks back on his career, conducted by film critic Gideon Bachmann; Interviews with actor Brunella Bovo and Manuel De Sica, the director's son; Feature-length documentary from 2019 on screenwriter Cesare Zavattini; Trailers; New English subtitle translation; An essay by film critic Christina Newland. Accompanied by insert: "It is goodness" by Christina Newland -- "Totò il buono" (1940), by Cesare Zavattini and Antonio De Curtis (Totò).
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 Totò (Francesco Golisano)--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 own novel, craft a big-hearted ode to the nobility of everyday people"--Container.
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