Umberto D.

Umberto D. (1952)

Timing: 1:31 (91 min)

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All about film

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Actors and characters

Release date

1952-01-20

Country

Italy

Production

Rizzoli Film, Produzioni De Sica, Amato Film

Genre

Drama

Budget

$0

Revenue

$71 461

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Director

Vittorio De Sica

Actors

Carlo Battisti, Napoleone the Dog, Maria Pia Casilio, Lina Gennari, Elena Rea, Memmo Carotenuto, Ileana Simova, Lamberto Maggiorani, Pasquale Campagnola, Riccardo Ferri
All actors and roles (10)

Scenario

Producer

Giuseppe Amato, Angelo Rizzoli, Vittorio De Sica

Operator

G.R. Aldo

Composer

Alessandro Cicognini

Artist

Audition

Editing

Eraldo Da Roma
All team (20)

• The film marked the debut for many members of the cast, including the leads Carlo Battisti (1882-1977) and Maria-Pia Casilio (1935-2012).
• This is the only film in which Carlo Battisti, who was not an actor but a linguistics professor at the University of Florence, appeared.
• Two dogs played in the film. The trained dog had a black head and a white right side. The other dog (with a white muzzle and a black spot on its right side) appeared in two scenes – when Umberto hides from the police after the demonstration is dispersed, and when he pulls Flaik out of the pond.
• Maria-Pia Casilio, who played the maid, had no acting education. She was approved for the role when she was gawking at real actresses who, as they say now, came to the casting. Director Vittorio De Sica (1901-1974) noticed her somewhere in the gallery and immediately decided that only she should play the maid. Casilio subsequently appeared in three more of his films. She continued to act until the late 1990s.
• In 1999, the film, restored by Mediaset (Italy's largest private media and telecommunications company), was shown in cinemas in New York, Rome, and Milan again.