Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 97 min
- Language
- Italian
- Country
- Italy
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- In Italian — subtitles on.
The story
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.
- homeless person
- based on novel or book
- slum
- magic
- angel
- milan
- poverty
- orphan
- kindness
- foundling
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Brunella Bovo — Edvige
- Anna Carena — Marta, la signora altezzosa
- Alba Arnova — La statua che prende vita
- Flora Cambi — L'innamorata infelice
- Virgilio Riento — Il sergente delle guardie
- Arturo Bragaglia — Alfredo
- Erminio Spalla — Gaetano
- Riccardo Bertazzolo — L'atleta
- Checco Rissone — Il comandante in secondo
- Angelo Prioli — Il comandante in primo
- Enzo Furlai
- Directed
- Vittorio De Sica
- Written
- Cesare Zavattini, Vittorio De Sica
Production
- Rating
- 7.3 / 10 · 269 ratings
- Studio
- Produzioni De Sica, ENIC
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
