Miracle in Milan

Totò, an orphan raised by a saintly old woman, grows up to become the cheerful heart of a Milan shantytown — until oil is discovered beneath the settlement and a ruthless tycoon moves to evict everyone. When Totò's deceased guardian returns from heaven bearing a magical dove capable of granting wishes, the film launches into joyous, anarchic fantasy. De Sica and screenwriter Cesare Zavattini use the fable form to savage postwar capitalism while never losing their tenderness for the dispossessed.

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