Down with Misery! (1945)
1h 19m
Running Time
December 27, 1945Release Date
Down with Misery! (1945)
1h 19m
Running Time
December 27, 1945Release Date
Plot.
The two drivers Giovanni and Gaetano are friends. Gaetano, bold and ruthless, thrives in the black market, while Giovanni, who is a naive and fundamentally honest worker from the North of Italy, cannot get any profit and his wife, an energetic and talkative Roman woman, can't help blaming him for his poor business skills. Returning from a trip to Naples, he brings home a little hungry orphan, Nello. At first Giovanni's wife doesn't want the boy, but then she begins to like him. The little boy does whatever he can to help the family. Nello's father, who everybody thought to have died during the war, finds his little son and, being a rich business man, he employs the good and generous Giovanni. Meanwhile the former friend Gaetano is caught by the police and convicted for his illegal trades.
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Cast & Crew.
Anna Magnani
Nannina Straselli
Nino Besozzi
Giovanni Straselli
Virgilio Riento
Gaetano Schioppa
Marisa Vernati
Caterina Schioppa
Vito Annichiarico
Nello Esposito
Sandro Ruffini
Porzio Ray
Lauro Gazzolo
Commendator Trombetti
Aldo Silvani
Il compagno di cella
Vittorio Mottini
Il padre di Nello
Checco Durante
Il fattorino del radiogrammofono
Checco Durante
Il fattorino del radiogrammofono
Giuseppe Pierozzi
Giorgio
Mara Lopez
La figlia del commendattore
Mario Monicelli
Writer
Dina Romano
La sorella di Gaetano (uncredited)
Claudio Ermelli
Il guardia di Finanza (uncredited)
Media.
Details.
Release DateDecember 27, 1945
Original NameAbbasso la miseria!
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 19m
Genres
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Wiki.
Down with Misery (Italian: Abbasso la miseria!) is a 1945 Italian comedy drama film directed by Gennaro Righelli and starring Anna Magnani, Nino Besozzi and Marisa Vernati. It was shot at the Farnesina Studios in Rome during the autumn of 1945. The film's sets were designed by the art director Gino Brosio. It was released in the wake Magnani's success in Roberto Rossellini's Rome, Open City. It makes reference to the thriving black market in postwar Italy and was followed by a loose sequel Peddlin' in Society (1946) which focused on a similar theme.
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