Miracle in Milan

1951 · Directed by Vittorio De Sica · 100 min · drama film, fantasy film, comedy film

★ 7.3/10 · 272 ratings on TMDB

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.