Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 91 min
- Age rating
- PG
- 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
When elderly pensioner Umberto Domenico Ferrari returns to his boarding house from a protest calling for a hike in old-age pensions, his landlady demands her 15,000-lire rent by the end of the month or he and his small dog will be turned out onto the street. Unable to get the money in time, Umberto fakes illness to get sent to a hospital, giving his beloved dog to the landlady's pregnant and abandoned maid for temporary safekeeping.
- unsociability
- rome
- italy
- despair
- servant
- hunger
- pension
- retiree
- rent
- old man
- hospital
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Carlo Battisti
Umberto Domenico Ferrari
Napoleone the Dog
Flike
Maria Pia Casilio
Maria
Lina Gennari
Antonia Belloni
- Elena Rea — The Nun at the Hospital
- Memmo Carotenuto — The Patient at the Hospital
- Ileana Simova — The Woman in Umberto's Room
- Lamberto Maggiorani — (uncredited)
- Pasquale Campagnola — (uncredited)
- Riccardo Ferri — (uncredited)
- Alberto Albani Barbieri — Antonia's Friend (uncredited)
- De Silva — Battistini (uncredited)
- Umberto Alivernini — Young Doctor (uncredited)
- Mario Pascucci — Young Doctor (uncredited)
- Mario Meniconi — (uncredited)
- Directed
- Vittorio De Sica
- Written
- Cesare Zavattini
Production
- Studio
- Amato Film, Rizzoli Film, Produzioni De Sica
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.
