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.
Genre: Drama
Stars: Carlo Battisti, Maria Pia Casilio, Lina Gennari, Elena Rea, Memmo Carotenuto, Ileana Simova
Crew: Giuseppe Amato (Producer), Cesare Zavattini (Screenplay), Virgilio Marchi (Production Design), Alessandro Cicognini (Original Music Composer), Ferdinando Ruffo (Set Decoration), Angelo Rizzoli (Producer)
Country: Italy
Language: Italiano
Studio: Amato Film, Rizzoli Film, Produzioni De Sica
Runtime: 91 minutes
Quality: HD
Released: Jan 20, 1952
IMDb: 3.124
Keywords:unsociability, rome, italy, despair, servant, hunger, pension, retiree, rent, old man, hospital, dog, landlady, elderly, neo realism, italian neo realism
