Once upon a time, an old woman discovered a baby in her cabbage patch. She brought up the child and, when she died, the boy, Toto, entered an orphanage. Toto leaves the orphanage a happy young man, still innocent at heart, and looks for work in post-war Milan. He ends up as the guest of a vagabond living in a slum on the outskirts of the city.
Winner of the Golden Palm in Cannes in 1951, Miracle in Milan is one of the great classics of world cinema, an intellectual fairy-tale and a commentary on real economic suffering and destitution.
Filmography: The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1970), Marriage Italian Style (1964), Bicycle Thieves (1949).