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Umberto D.
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Umberto D. is a 1952 Italian drama film directed by Vittorio De Sica and written by Cesare Zavattini. The black-and-white production, which runs for 91 minutes, features a cast including Carlo Battisti, Maria Pia Casilio, Lina Gennari, and Memmo Carotenuto. Alessandro Cicognini composed the music, while Eraldo Da Roma served as the film editor. The narrative is set in Rome and addresses themes of old age and solitude.
The film was produced by Giuseppe Amato, Vittorio De Sica, and Angelo Rizzoli, with production companies including Amato Film, Rizzoli Film, and Produzioni De Sica. It received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Story. Available in video on demand format through Netflix, the film has an IMDb rating of 8.1 based on 30,636 votes and a TMDb average of 7.875 from 740 votes.
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7.9When 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.
Cast
- Carlo Battisti as Umberto Domenico Ferrari
- Napoleone the Dog as Flike
- Maria Pia Casilio as Maria
- Lina Gennari as Antonia Belloni
- Elena Rea as The Nun at the Hospital
- Memmo Carotenuto as The Patient at the Hospital
Themes
- unsociability
- rome, italy
- despair
- servant
- hunger
- pension
- retiree
- rent
- old man
- hospital
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Vittorio De Sica
- Written by
- Cesare Zavattini
- Produced by
- Angelo Rizzoli , Vittorio De Sica , Giuseppe Amato
- Starring
- Carlo Battisti , Maria-Pia Casilio , Lina Gennari
- Cinematography
- G. R. Aldo
- Edited by
- Eraldo Da Roma
- Music by
- Alessandro Cicognini
- Distributed by
- Dear Film
- Release dates
- 20 January 1952 ( 1952-01-20 ) (Italy) 7 November 1955 ( 1955-11-07 ) (USA)
- Running time
- 89 minutes
- Country
- Italy
- Language
- Italian
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Encyclopedic overview
Umberto D. ( pronounced [umˈbɛrto di]) is a 1952 Italian neorealist film directed by Vittorio De Sica. Most of the actors were non-professional, including Carlo Battisti who plays the title role of Umberto Domenico Ferrari, a poor elderly man in Rome who is desperately trying to keep his rented room. His landlady (Lina Gennari) is evicting him and his only true friends, the housemaid (Maria-Pia Casilio) and his dog Flike (called 'Flag' in some subtitled versions of the film) are of no help.
According to Robert Osborne of Turner Classic Movies, this was De Sica's favorite of all his films. The movie was included in TIME magazine's "All-TIME 100 Movies" in 2005. The film's sets were designed by Virgilio Marchi. In 2008, the film was included on the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage’s 100 Italian films to be saved, a list of 100 films that "have changed the collective memory of the country between 1942 and 1978."
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