Miracle in Milan | |
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Directed by | Vittorio De Sica |
Screenplay by | Cesare Zavattini Vittorio De Sica Suso Cecchi d'Amico Mario Chiari Adolfo Franci |
Story by | Cesare Zavattini |
Produced by | Vittorio De Sica |
Starring | Emma Gramatica Francesco Golisano |
Cinematography | Aldo Graziati |
Edited by | Eraldo Da Roma |
Music by | Alessandro Cicognini |
Distributed by | Joseph Burstyn Inc. (US) Criterion Collection (DVD) |
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Running time | 100 minutes |
Country | Italy |
Languages | Italian Milanese |
Miracle in Milan (Italian: Miracolo a Milano) is a 1951 Italian fantasy comedy film directed by Vittorio De Sica.[1] The screenplay was co-written by Cesare Zavattini, based on his novel Totò il Buono. The picture stars Francesco Golisano, Emma Gramatica, Paolo Stoppa, and Guglielmo Barnabò.[2][3]
The film, told as a neo-realist fable, explains the lives of a poverty-stricken group in post-war Milan, Italy. In 2008, the film was included on the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage’s 100 Italian films to be saved, a list of 100 films that "have changed the collective memory of the country between 1942 and 1978."[4]