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08/02/1951 Comedy, Fantasy, Drama 1h 37m
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An impudent, riotous laugh on the lives and morals of our day!

Overview

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.

  1. Vittorio De Sica

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Emma Gramatica

    La vecchia Lolotta

  2. Francesco Golisano

    Totò

  3. Paolo Stoppa

    Rappi

  4. Guglielmo Barnabò

    Mobbi

  5. Brunella Bovo

    Edvige

  6. Anna Carena

    Marta, la signora altezzosa

  7. Alba Arnova

    La statua che prende vita

  8. Flora Cambi

    L'innamorata infelice

  9. Virgilio Riento

    Il sergente delle guardie

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf
Written by CinemaSerf on 2024-04-29
Baby "Totò" is found in a cabbage patch by a kindly lady who brings him up before she dies and he must go into an orphanage. From thence he emerges as one of the most optimistic of young men (Francesco Golisano). His upbeat demeanour and good manners regularly bamboozle the miserable and curmudgeonly amongst post-war Milanese society until he encounters a gent who tries to pinch his small bag. He gives him the bag instead, and is in return invited to stay at the man's home on this wintery night. That introduces "Totò" to a lively and vibrant community living, favela-style, on some bombed-out...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
Italian

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

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