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MOVIE

Miracle in Milan

An impudent, riotous laugh on the lives and morals of our day!

★ 7.3 1951 97 min ComedyFantasyDrama

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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Miracle in Milan in its release era

Released in 1951, Miracle in Milan sits inside the 1950s catalog. Explore its creators, studio connections, genres and nearby releases from the same period.

Release
1951-02-08
TMDB score
7.3/10
Original language
IT
Status
Released
Production
Italy
Studio
Produzioni De Sica, ENIC
Topicshomeless personbased on novel or bookslummagicangelmilanpovertyorphan

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