TY - ADVS AU - Vittorio De Sica AU - Vittorio De Sica AU - Cesare Zavattini AU - Suso Cecchi D'Amico AU - Emma Gramatica AU - Francesco Golisano AU - Paolo Stoppa TI - Miracolo a Milano: Miracle in Milan AV - PN1997 .M573 1951 PY - 2006/// CY - Italy PB - Umbrella Entertainment, Produzioni De Sica, Ente Nazionale Industrie Cinematografiche (ENIC) N1 - Based on the novel "Totò il buono" by Cesare Zavattini; Special features include Premier in Milan, interviews, poster artwork and lobby stills, trailer N2 - From case cover: Following The Bicycle Thief, Vittorio De Sica's second effort as a producer-director was acclaimed internationally, winning the Grand Prize at Cannes, and voted Best Foreign Film by the New York Film Critics in 1951. The story of a saint-like orphan boy who rises up to fight for the rights of vagabonds living in a shanty town threatened by a greedy developer, De Sica adds a playful, fairytale dimension to the film's grim social realism. Anticipating the surrealism of Fellini's later work, Miracle in Milan plays as a neorealist fable, a heart-warming tale of good versus evil as the discarded people of the streets - portrayed by real-life homeless people - challenge the elite that consigned them to poverty. Through it all, the protagonist Toto is offered up as a ray of innocence and hope in a world sullied by avarice and injustice ER -