Miracolo a Milano Film Screening II Cineforum: Italian Classics on Campus
Miracolo a Milano Film Screening II Cineforum: Italian Classics on Campus
October 22, 2024
An old woman finds a baby among the cauliflowers in her garden. She takes care of the orphan, and calls him Totò. When she dies, he is sent to an orphanage, which he leaves as a teenager. When Totò goes out in the world, he expects everyone to be open-hearted as himself, but it isn’t so. Without belongings and a place to live, he soon turns up among other homeless people, living scattered in boxes and cement pipes on a vast, barren field outside Milano. With his energy and enthusiasm Totò quickly engages the outcasts in transforming the place into a small shanty town. The eccentric misfits are turned into a warm-hearted community. But when the wealthy Mr. Mobbi buys the land he will try to get rid of the outcasts. Grand Prize of the Festival, Cannes Film Festival, 1951. Best Foreign Language Film, New York Film Critics Circle Awards, 1951. Top Foreign Films award, National Board of Review, USA, 1951. Nominated for Best Film from any Source, BAFTA Awards, 1953.