Down with Misery!

Story

Synopsis

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.

Director

Gennaro Righelli

Writers

Gennaro Righelli, Nicola Fausto Neroni

Language

Italian

Country

Italy

Release date

27 December 1945

Ensemble

Cast

• 

  Anna Magnani

  Nannina Straselli

• 

  Nino Besozzi

  Giovanni Straselli

• 

  Virgilio Riento

  Gaetano Schioppa

• Marisa Vernati

  Caterina Schioppa

• Vito Annichiarico

  Nello Esposito

• 

  Sandro Ruffini

  Porzio Ray

• 

  Lauro Gazzolo

  Commendator Trombetti

• 

  Aldo Silvani

  Il compagno di cella

• Vittorio Mottini

  Il padre di Nello

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  Checco Durante

  Il fattorino del radiogrammofono

• 

  Giuseppe Pierozzi

  Giorgio

• Mara Lopez

  La figlia del commendattore