Miracle in Milan

Feb 8, 1951

1h 37m

★ 7.3

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.

Genres

Comedy

Fantasy

Drama

Production Companies

Produzioni De Sica

ENIC

Miracle in Milan Trailers

Cast

La vecchia Lolotta

Emma Gramatica

Totò

Francesco Golisano

Rappi

Paolo Stoppa

Mobbi

Guglielmo Barnabò

Edvige

Brunella Bovo

Marta, la signora altezzosa

Anna Carena

La statua che prende vita

Alba Arnova

L'innamorata infelice

Flora Cambi

Il sergente delle guardie

Virgilio Riento

Alfredo

Arturo Bragaglia

Gaetano

Erminio Spalla

L'atleta

Riccardo Bertazzolo

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