Carlo Battisti, Maria-Pia Casilio
Umberto Domenico Ferrari, an elderly and retired civil servant, is desperately trying to maintain a decent standard of living on a rapidly dwindling state pension. But he's up against his tyrannical l...( read more
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DVD Release Date: July 22, 2003
Stats: 356 reviews
Director Vittorio De Sica and screenwriter Cesare Zavattini, show again their good sense and total mastery over pathos. Characters of exemplary moral standards who find themselves unjustly trapped inside a somber existence, condemned to indifference and oblivion.
It's been quite ...( read more)
Vittorio De Sica's "Umberto D", one of the best examples of an Italian neorealist film, could almost play as a slapstick comedy. The leading character, a broken old man, tries to feign sickness in a Catholic hospital, and when he cannot bring himself to beg on the streets he acts...( read more)
One of the great films of the Italian Neo-Realism era, and on par with DeSica's other great film Bicycle Thieves (Ladri di Bicciclette). Vittorio DeSica takes a slice of life, much like Ozu, in a film with no "proper" beginning or end: the viewer is thrown into a characters lif...( read more)
I'm getting to the age where I really need to think hard about retirement and how I can afford it. Can't count on Social Security for much. 401K is taking a beating. Don't want to work until I'm 150. But I do have my dogs, and they are what keep me going.This movie could
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Vittorio de Sica's Umberto D. is an Italian neorealist film. This film depicts an old man, Umberto Dominico Ferrari, who is trying to make ends meet. He lives off a pension and the lady he rents a room from is threatening to kick him out. He tries selling a bunch of stuff to get ...( read more)
This classic Itailian film is directed by Vittorio De Sica and stars Carlo Battisti who brings a moving performance of an elderly man soon to be displaced from his apartment. He is seemingly alone in the world with the exception of his beloved dog; and the dog for me was the ver...( read more)
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