Miracle in Milan (1951)

Miracolo a Milano

An impudent, riotous laugh on the lives and morals of our day!

97 min★ 7.6 · 9,560 votes

• Comedy
• Drama
• Fantasy

Once upon a time a wise and kind old woman discovers a baby in her cabbage patch. She brings up the child and, when she dies, the boy, Totò, enters an orphanage. Totò 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. But when greedy developers threaten the community’s land, Totò will need all the help he can get in order to find an impossible way out.

Release date

February 8, 1951

Country of origin

Italy