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Film

Umberto D.

★ Editor's Pick

Vittorio De Sica  ·  Italy  ·  1952

Drama 1950s

Umberto Domenico Ferrari, a retired civil servant living on a meager pension, struggles to pay his rent in postwar Rome while the world around him remains indifferent to his plight. His only companions are his devoted dog Flike and a young housemaid, and he is forced to ever more desperate measures to survive. One of the pinnacles of Italian neorealism, the film is a profoundly humane and quietly devastating study of loneliness, poverty, and the bond between a man and his dog.

Language

Italian

Cast

Carlo Battisti, Maria Pia Casilio, Lina Gennari, Ileana Simova, Elena Rea

Awards

  • New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Foreign Language Film (1955)