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Miracle in Milan is a 1951 Italian fantasy comedy film directed by Vittorio De Sica. The screenplay was co-written by Cesare Zavattini and De Sica, based on Zavattini's 1943 novel Totò il Buono. Told as a neo-realist fable, the film depicts the lives of a poverty-stricken group in post-WWII Milan, Italy, led by Totò, a kind and cheerful orphan. The film stars Francesco Golisano as Totò, alongside an ensemble cast…
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Italian neorealism produced some of the most celebrated films in history, yet those films usually didn’t create as much enthusiasm among general audiences as among the critics and film scholars. This often had to do with those films’ grim settings and downer endings. Vittorio De Sica, one of the masters of this genre, was apparently aware of this problem and sought to create something different with *Miracle in Mila…More
