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Umberto D. (pronounced [umˈbɛrto di]) is a 1952 Italian neorealist film directed by Vittorio De Sica. Most of the actors were non-professional, including Carlo Battisti who plays the title role of Umberto Domenico Ferrari, a poor elderly man in Rome who is desperately trying to keep his rented room.
An elderly man and his dog struggle to survive on his government pension in Rome. IMDb provides cast and crew information, user and critic reviews, trivia, goofs, quotes, and more for this classic film by Vittorio De Sica.
Umberto D. is a 1952 Italian film that depicts the struggles of an elderly pensioner in postwar Rome. The Criterion Collection offers a new restoration, a documentary, essays, and an interview with the director and the actress Maria Pia Casilio.
Apr 28, 2002 · Umberto D is a 1952 Italian film by Vittorio De Sica about a retired civil servant facing poverty and eviction. Roger Ebert praises its simplicity, realism and dignity, and calls it the best of the neorealist films.
Sep 4, 2012 · Umberto D. is perhaps the most astringent film ever made about a poor old man and his dog. Critics today tend to like the astringent parts: the long, deliberately undramatic sequences full of mundane activity (such as a housemaid’s morning routine), performed with little or no dialogue and shot as if in real time.
Aug 18, 2022 · Umberto Domenico Ferari (Umberto D. for short) is a lonely old man, cold, uncommunicative, clinging to his ingrained bourgeois standards of behaviour and dress in spite of his inability to pay the rent at a cheap lodging house.
Aug 9, 2021 · A classic Italian neorealism film that captures humanity in times of despair. “Umberto D.” is realistic and 60-years-later, many can still feel compassion for Umberto because those emotions still run strong, as poverty is still a major problem today.
