Miracle in Milan (Criterion Collection)(1951) on Blu-ray

Actor: Emma Gramatica, Francesco Golisano, Paolo Stoppa, Guglielmo Barnabo, Brunella Bovo
Director: Vittorio De Sica
Genre: Comedy
Year: 1951
Studio: Criterion Collection
Length: 96
Released: 04/19/2022
Rating: NR
Format: Blu-ray
Misc: NTSC, Black/White
Language: English
Subtitles: N/A

In post-WWII Italy, an orphanage-reared man (Francesco Golisano) is gifted with a magic dove by the ghost of the kindly woman (Emma Gramatica) who took him in as an abandoned infant. The divine gift may be the only hope for his shantytown neighbors from being exploited for the oil found under their humble plot. Vittorio de Sica's compassionate, neo-realist fantasy-dramedy also stars Paolo Stoppa, Guglielmo Barnabò

Special Features

-New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
-New interview with neorealism expert and film scholar David Forgacs
-Audio interview from the late 1960s in which director Vittorio De Sica looks back on his career, conducted by film critic Gideon Bachmann
-Interviews with actor Brunella Bovo and Manuel De Sica, the director’s son
-Feature-length documentary from 2019 on screenwriter Cesare Zavattini
-Trailers
-New English subtitle translation
-PLUS: An essay by film critic Christina Newland and, on the Blu-ray, “Totò il buono,” a 1940 short story by Zavattini and stage actor Totò that is the earliest version of the narrative on which Miracle in Milan is based