Overview
When elderly pensioner Umberto Domenico Ferrari returns to his boarding house from a protest calling for a hike in old-age pensions, his landlady demands her 15,000-lire rent by the end of the month or he and his small dog will be turned out onto the street. Unable to get the money in time, Umberto fakes illness to get sent to a hospital, giving his beloved dog to the landlady's pregnant and abandoned maid for temporary safekeeping.
Details
- Director
- Vittorio De Sica
- Writer
- Cesare Zavattini
- Original Language
- Italian
- Budget
- N/A
Cast
Carlo Battisti
Elena Rea
Ileana Simova
Lamberto Maggiorani
Lina Gennari
Maria Pia Casilio
Memmo Carotenuto
Napoleone the Dog
Pasquale Campagnola
Riccardo Ferri
Keywords
black and white
despair
dog
elderly
hospital
hunger
italian neo realism
landlady
neo realism
old man
pension
rent
retiree
rome
italy
servant
unsociability
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