Directed by Vittorio De Sica • 1951 • Italy
Starring Francesco Golisano, Emma Gramatica, Paolo Stoppa
This warm and wonderful fable by director Vittorio De Sica recounts the story of displaced Europeans gathered in a strife-torn Italian village following World War II. Poor and starving, their rescuer and benefactor comes in the unlikely guise of a young orphan, assisted by a guardian angel sent from heaven, who defeats the cruel profiteers seeking to take advantage of these unfortunate souls. Blending fantasy and reality, MIRACLE IN MILAN illuminates the plight of millions of Europeans dispossessed by the war.
The following documentary on screenwriter, publisher, novelist, and film theorist Cesare Zavattini was made in 2019 and is part of an ongoing Italian television series profiling important historical figures. Each episode in the series, “Italiani con Paolo Mieli,” is introduced by Mieli, a journal...
In this audio interview, conducted by film critic Gideon Bachmann in the late 1960s, director Vittorio De Sica looks back on his career and discusses how Italian cinema has moved away from neorealism.
