Miracle in Milan (1951)

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

• Comedy
• Fantasy
• Drama

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.

Rating

7.3 / 10 (276 votes)

Release date

February 8, 1951

Runtime

1h 37m

Language

Italian

Director

Vittorio De Sica

Status

Released