DVD 89 IMDB 8.3

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Drama

Carlo Battisti	Umberto Domenico Ferrari
Memmo Carotenuto	Il degente all' ospedale
Maria Pia Casilio
Lina Gennari	Antonia, la padrona di case
Maria-Pia Casilio	Maria, la servetta
Ileana Simova	La donna nella camera di Umberto
Elena Rea	La suora all' ospedale
Alberto Albani Barbieri	L'amico di Antonia
Pasquale Campagnola
Riccardo Ferri
Lamberto Maggiorani

Director	Vittorio De Sica
Producer	Giuseppe Amato; Vittorio De Sica; Angelo Rizzoli
Writer	Cesare Zavattini; Vittorio De Sica
Cinematography	Aldo Graziati
Musician	Alessandro Cicognini

Shot on location with a cast of nonprofessional actors, Vittorio De Sica's neorealist masterpiece follows Umberto D., an elderly pensioner, as he struggles to make ends meet during Italy's postwar economic boom. Alone except for his dog, Flike, Umberto strives to maintain his dignity while trying to survive in a city where traditional human kindness seems to have lost out to the forces of modernization. Umberto's simple quest to fulfill the most fundamental human needs - food, shelter, companionship - is one of the most heartbreaking stories ever filmed and an essential classic of world cinema.