Miracle in Milan
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.
- Director
- Vittorio De Sica
- Signature
- Drama · Craft · Wonder
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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.
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- Release date
- Feb 8, 1951
- Runtime
- 1h 37m
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- Language
- Italian
- Country
- Italy
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