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Miracolo a Milano / Cineteca Bologna ; Compass Film ; un film di Vittorio De Sica ; soggetto di Cesare Zavattini ; sceneggiatura di Cesare Zavattini e Vittorio De Sica con la collaborazione di Suso Cecchi D'Amico, Mario Chiari, Adolfo Franci ; realizzato dalla Soc. Produzioni De Sica in associazione con l'E.N.I.C. ; regia, Vittorio De Sica.

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Format:
Video
Contributor:
De Sica, Vittorio, 1901-1974, film director, screenwriter, film producer.
Zavattini, Cesare, 1902-1989, screenwriter.
Cecchi d'Amico, Suso, screenwriter.
Chiari, Mario, 1909-1989, screenwriter.
Franci, Adolfo, screenwriter.
Gramatica, Emma, approximately 1872-1965, actor.
Golisano, Francesco, actor.
Stoppa, Paolo, actor.
Barnabò, Guglielmo, actor.
Bovo, Brunella, 1932-2017, actor.
Carena, Anna, actor.
Graziati, Aldo, 1902-1953, director of photography.
Da Roma, Eraldo, editor of moving image work.
Cicognini, Alessandro, composer (expression).
Produzioni De Sica S.A., production company.
Ente Nazionale Industrie Cinematografiche, production company.
Compass Film, restorationist.
Cineteca comunale (Bologna, Italy), restorationist.
Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.
Series:
Criterion collection ; 1119.
The Criterion collection ; 1119
Language:
English
Italian
Subjects (All):
Zavattini, Cesare, 1902-1989--Film adaptations.
Zavattini, Cesare.
Squatter settlements--Italy--Milan--Drama.
Squatter settlements.
Poor--Italy--Milan--Drama.
Poor.
Orphans--Italy--Milan--Drama.
Orphans.
Milan (Italy)--Social life and customs--Drama.
Milan (Italy).
Zavattini, Cesare, 1902-1989.
Manners and customs.
Tramps.
Italy.
Italy--Milan.
Genre:
Foreign language films -- Italian.
Comedy films.
Drama.
Fantasy films.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Film adaptations.
Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
Physical Description:
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert (12 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 19 x 70 cm, folded to 12 x 19 cm)
4 3/4 in.
monochrome
black and white
stamping
Edition:
DVD special edition.
Other Title:
Container title: Miracle in Milan
Place of Publication:
[New York, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection, [2022]
Language Note:
Italian dialogue.
System Details:
DVD, NTSC, Region 1; full screen (1.37:1) presentation; Dolby monaural.
digital
optical
sound
mono
Dolby digital 1.0
NTSC
video file
DVD video
region 1
Summary:
"Renowned filmmaker Vittorio De Sica followed up his international triumph Bicycle Thieves with this enchantingly playful neorealist fairy tale, in which he combines his celebrated slice-of-life poetry with flights of graceful comedy and storybook fantasy. On the outskirts of Milan, a band of vagabonds work together to form a shantytown. When it is discovered that the land they occupy contains oil, however, it's up to the cherubic orphan Totò (Francesco Golisano)--with some divine help--to save their community from greedy developers. Tipping their hats to the imaginative whimsy of Charles Chaplin and René Clair, De Sica and screenwriter Cesare Zavattini, adapting his own novel, craft a big-hearted ode to the nobility of everyday people"--Container.
Participant:
Emma Gramatica, Francesco Golisano, Paolo Stoppa, Guglielmo Barnabò, Brunella Bovo, Anna Carena, Alba Arnova, Flora Cambi, Virgilio Riento, Arturo Bragaglia, Erminio Spalla, Riccardo Bertazzolo, Francesco Rissone, Angelo Prioli.
Credits:
Photography by G. R. Aldo ; editing, Eraldo Da Roma ; music by Alessandro Cicognini ; production designer, Guido Fiorini ; costume designer, Mario Chiari.
Notes:
Title and credits from screen.
Based on the novel Toto il buono / [by] Cesare Zavattini.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1951.
Full screen (1.37:1).
Special features: new 4K digital restoration; new interview with neorealism expert and film scholar David Forgacs; audio interview from the late 1960s in which director Vittorio De Sica looks back on his career, conducted by film critic Gideon Bachmann; Interviews with actor Brunella Bovo and Manuel De Sica, the director's son; Feature-length documentary from 2019 on screenwriter Cesare Zavattini, which originally aired on the television series Italiani, hosted by Paolo Meili; Trailers; New English subtitle translation; An essay by film critic Christina Newland.
Accompanying insert contains essay by film critic Christina Newland: It is goodness.
Contains:
Container of: Miracolo a Milano (Motion picture)
Container of: Italiani (Television program). Cesare Zavattini.
ISBN:
9781681439266
1681439263
OCLC:
1298604862
Publisher Number:
715515270816
CC3347D The Criterion Collection

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