Miracle in Milan

Director: Vittorio De Sica, Vittorio De Sica

1951 / 97min / DCP

De Sica banged a sharp turn away from neorealism with this magical realist fable evocative of early cinema, which retains the sense of solidarity with society’s downtrodden of the director’s Bicycle Thieves, but employs a deliberately (and enchantingly) theatrical setting, a shantytown whose residents rise up to revolt against the incursions of oil-hungry industrialists. “Purest gold… The rich vein of sly compassionate humor that Charlie Chaplin and René Clair used to mine with unparalleled genius has been tapped by De Sica in Miracle in Milan.”—The New York Times

Restored from the original camera negative by Cineteca di Bologna and Compass Film, in collaboration with Mediaset, Infinity, Arthur Cohn and Variety Communications at L’Immagine Ritrovata laboratory.