Down with Misery!
6.4
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
23 people
Anna Magnani
Nannina Straselli
Known for
Mamma Roma
Bellissima
Nino Besozzi
Giovanni Straselli
Known for
The Law Is the Law
Mario Monicelli
Known for
Under the Tuscan Sun
Rodolfo Lombardi
Gennaro Righelli
Also in
A Torero's Love
The Slave's Sacrifice
Virgilio Riento
Gaetano Schioppa
Known for
Miracle in Milan
Bread, Love and Dreams
Nicola Fausto Neroni
Umberto Mancini
Marisa Vernati
Caterina Schioppa
Also in
Colpi di timone
L'atleta di cristallo
Vito Annichiarico
Nello Esposito
Known for
Rome, Open City
Sandro Ruffini
Porzio Ray
Also in
The Testimony
Giallo
Lauro Gazzolo
Commendator Trombetti
Known for
The Band of Honest Men
Gennaro Righelli Director · Nicola Fausto Neroni Screenplay Umberto Mancini Composer
First release December 27, 1945 · Produced in Italy · Original title Abbasso la miseria!
Production
Domus Film
Production
Italy
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Languages
Original title
Abbasso la miseria!
Original language
Italian
Spoken on screen
Italian
Release dates
Italy · December 27, 1945
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
Portugal
July 7, 1954
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