Miracle In Milan (1951) Criterion 1080p BluRay x265 HEVC FLAC-SARTRE
Miracle in Milan
Comedy Fantasy Science Fiction
Once upon a time an old woman discovers a baby in her cabbage patch. She brings up the child and, when she dies, the boy, Toto, enters an orphanage. Toto 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. The squatters discover oil in the land and Toto sees a vision of the old woman who gives him a magic dove that will grant him anything he wishes.
Renowned filmmaker Vittorio De Sica followed up his international triumph Bicycle Thieves with this enchantingly playful neorealist fairy tale, in which he combines his celebrated slice-of-life poetry with flights of graceful comedy and storybook fantasy. On the outskirts of Milan, a band of vagabonds work together to form a shantytown. When it is discovered that the land they occupy contains oil, however, it’s up to the cherubic orphan Totò (Francesco Golisano)—with some divine help—to save their community from greedy developers. Tipping their hats to the imaginative whimsy of Charles Chaplin and René Clair, De Sica and screenwriter Cesare Zavattini, adapting his own novel, craft a bighearted ode to the nobility of everyday people.
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STARS...........: Emma Gramatica, Francesco Golisano, Paolo Stoppa
DIRECTOR........: Vittorio De Sica
WRITERS.........: Cesare Zavattini, Vittorio De Sica
GENRE...........: Drama, Comedy, Fantasy
METACRITIC......: 78/70
TOMATOMETER.....: 92/89
IMDB SCORE......: 7.6
IMDB LINK.......: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043809
RUNTIME.........: 1h 36mn
SIZE............: 6.91 GB
VIDEO CODEC.....: HEVC (Main10@L4)
BITRATE.........: 10000 Kbps (2-pass)
RESOLUTION......: 1480x1080
ASPECT RATIO....: 1.37:1
FRAMERATE.......: 23.976 fps
AUDIO...........: Italian FLAC 1.0
SUBTITLES.......: ENG
SOURCE..........: Criterion Blu-ray remux, Arrow DVD
ENCODE DATE.....: 2026-02-02
Extras [Arrow]
• Miracle in Milan Premiere newsreel
• Interviews with actor Brunella Bovo and Manuel De Sica, the director’s son
• Trailer
