Released:
1951-02-08

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.

Director:
Vittorio De Sica

Runtime:
1h 37min

Genre:
Comedy, Fantasy, Drama

• Cast:
• 
  Emma Gramatica
  as
  La vecchia Lolotta
• 
  Francesco Golisano
  as
  Totò
• 
  Paolo Stoppa
  as
  Rappi
• 
  Guglielmo Barnabò
  as
  Mobbi
• 
  Brunella Bovo
  as
  Edvige