Down with Misery! (1945)

  • NR
  • 12/27/1945 (IT)
  • Drama
  • 1h 19m

Overview

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.

Gennaro Righelli

Director, Story, Screenplay

Nicola Fausto Neroni

Screenplay

Cast

Anna Magnani's headshot

Anna Magnani

Nannina Straselli
Nino Besozzi's headshot

Nino Besozzi

Giovanni Straselli
Virgilio Riento's headshot

Virgilio Riento

Gaetano Schioppa
Marisa Vernati's headshot

Marisa Vernati

Caterina Schioppa
Vito Annichiarico's headshot

Vito Annichiarico

Nello Esposito
Sandro Ruffini's headshot

Sandro Ruffini

Porzio Ray
Lauro Gazzolo's headshot

Lauro Gazzolo

Commendator Trombetti
Aldo Silvani's headshot

Aldo Silvani

Il compagno di cella

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