An impudent, riotous laugh on the lives and morals of our day!
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.
- 7.3
- 1951
- Released
- 1h 37m
Emma Gramatica
La vecchia Lolotta
Francesco Golisano
Totò
Paolo Stoppa
Rappi
Guglielmo Barnabò
Mobbi
Brunella Bovo
Edvige
Anna Carena
Marta, la signora altezzosa
Alba Arnova
La statua che prende vitaFlora Cambi
L'innamorata infelice
Virgilio Riento
Il sergente delle guardie
Arturo Bragaglia
AlfredoErminio Spalla
GaetanoRiccardo Bertazzolo
L'atleta
Checco Rissone
Il comandante in secondoAngelo Prioli
Il comandante in primo
Enzo Furlai
Renato Navarrini
Egisto Olivieri
Jubal Schembri
Jerome Johnson
Gianni Branduani
Totò a 11 anni (uncredited)
Released
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- #homeless person
- #based on novel or book
- #slum
- #magic
- #angel
- #milan
- #poverty
- #orphan
- #kindness
- #foundling
- #magic realism
- #shantytown
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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