Product Description

Australia released, PAL/Region 0 DVD:it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada: LANGUAGES: Italian ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ),English ( Subtitles ),SPECIAL FEATURES: Cast/Crew Interview(s), Documentary, Interactive Menu, Photo Gallery, Trailer(s),SYNOPSIS: Vittorio DeSica's follow-up to The Bicycle Thief documents the lives of the poverty-stricken in post-war Italy. Francesco Golisano is Good Toto, an orphan boy who begins living with a cluster of beggars. His organizational efforts bring some structure to the colony and engenders a sense of faint happiness among its morose dwellers. When Toto is given a magic dove by a fairy, he uses its wish-granting powers to whoever asks, but the dove is eventually stolen. As a result, the land on which the beggars live is taken over, and they are jailed. In his prison, however, the dove returns to Toto, and his wish for the freedom of his friends is granted. SCREENED/AWARDED AT: BAFTA Awards, Cannes Film Festival,

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #92512 in DVD
• Formats: Import, PAL, Subtitled
• Subtitled in: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 93 minutes

Features

• THIS DVD WILL NOT WORK ON STANDARD US DVD PLAYER

Customer Reviews

Double magic
Miracle in Milan is initially about almost everything you don't want a film to dwell on. A fog-bound, dreary periphery wasteland of burgeoning, very industrial late 1940s Milan. Power lines and train tracks cross a barren no-mans land. People sidelined in life, "tramps", survive in rough shelter in this desolate, sunless landscape -- creating their own mimicry of normal society. But then along comes the young uncynical man, earlier the boy literally found under a cabbage leaf by a wonderful old woman who is charm itself.

De Sica may be renowned for a socialist view of the world, but his politics are here surbservient to cinema and character magic. You get dogma in an almost disney-like send-up of the bad guys -- industrialists who arrive on the scene in their top-hats, fur-collared coats and limousines. They're almost like befuddled, misanthropic Mr Magoos. As all hope is about to be lost for our illegal settlers, a magic-laden dove is given to our young hero. The ending sweeps away everything before it.

Sweet and Wonderful
It was at Carnegie Hall where I saw this sweet & wonderful b&w film. So charming. I hIghly recommend it.