Release Date: 1952-01-20
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.
Rating: 7.9 / 10
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
Vittorio De Sica - Director
Cesare Zavattini - Screenplay
Giuseppe Amato - Producer
Angelo Rizzoli - Producer
Alessandro Cicognini - Original Music Composer
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