Miracle in Milan (1951)
Overview : 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.
Release Date : February 8, 1951
Runtime : 97m
Genre : Comedy, Fantasy, Drama
Companies : Produzioni De Sica, ENIC
Countries : Italy
Keywords : homeless person, based on novel or book, slum, magic, angel, milan, poverty, orphan, kindness, foundling, magic realism, shantytown