Umberto D.

Umberto D.

  • Director: Vittorio De Sica
  • Countries of origin: Italy
  • Language: Italian
  • Release date: November 7, 1955
  • Aspect ratio: 1.37 : 1
  • Also known as: Umberto De
  • "Umberto D." is a feature film directed by Vittorio Desica, starring Carlo Battisti and Maria-Pia Casilio.
    The film tells the tragic life of a retired civil servant Wimpelto.

    Details

    • Release date November 7, 1955
    • Filming locations Cinecittà Studios, Cinecittà, Rome, Lazio, Italy
    • Production companies Dear Film, Rizzoli Film, Produzione Films Vittorio De Sica

    Box office

    Gross US & Canada

    $71,816

    Gross worldwide

    $72,433

    Movie reviews

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    • By Lucinda 2022-03-23 09:02:47

      Looking at your little clear words, I express my sincere disgust.

      Also Neorealism. Obviously it is realism, and the pension will be given a little bit. If we think about it from reality, it is similar to layoffs after the reform, which is worse than this.

      This old man still has a pension, and being laid off means he is unemployed. Now I get it.

      In addition, this old man still can't put down the air to beg for food, which can explain the inherent class view of his body and would rather commit suicide. However, I saw a story on the Internet....

    • By Ofelia 2022-03-20 09:02:23

      A fine humanist lesson

      Maybe it is just me, but I was filled with conflicting emotions of sympathy and annoyance, towards the main character, Umberto D., throughout the movie. Maybe that's what Lu Xun means by "mourning his misfortune, angering him without arguing". The old man is vain, petty, and hopelessly inept, an entirely believable little bureaucrat thrown out of familiar territory, even though his perils move us into tears, as we witness this thin and unfirm frame shivering in the cold wind, abandoned by all...

    • By Israel 2022-01-12 08:01:12

      A sigh

      As the coffin of Italian neo-realism movies and one of the legendary Desica’s most cherished works, "Vimbelto D" (also known as "Wind Candle Tears") highlights the features of neo-realistic movies. Features and reached a high level of art.
         The film focuses on the survival plight of the retired government employee, Humberto D, and faithfully records his unremitting efforts to maintain his life. It fully demonstrates his way of striving for disappointment, despair, and finally hope from...

    • By Tressie 2022-01-12 08:01:12

      "Wind Candle Tears"-the vicissitudes of history and the hard life add tears

      Vittorio de Sica was an important director in the renaissance of Italian neo-realism after World War II, and an actor with great talent and charm. Most of his films are in-depth studies of the life of the Italian working class after the war, reflecting a natural style. His significance at the time is very important from a historical point of view.
             De Sica devoted himself to acting in his early years. He performed professionally on stage for the first time in 1923. In the 1920s, he...

    • By Guy 2022-01-12 08:01:12

      Reprinted a comment: the image is out of the plot and towards a pure visual situation

      Deleuze often quotes characters or stories in movies to dramatize certain philosophical issues, which belong to the scope of symbolic signs, which are used to strengthen the "distance between man and the world." The most striking example appears in Di
      Sijia 's " The Candle Tears of the Wind": When Zavattini (Cesare Zavattini 1902-1989) defines neorealism as a kind of rendezvous art, ─ ─ fragmentary, short-lived, and intermittent. Encounter, what does he want to say? This refers to some...

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    • By Darian 2022-03-28 09:01:08

      I feel less and less about neorealism. It doesn't end like this: when the railroad rails are lowered, other people pass under them with their heads bowed, and the old man stands still in front with his dog in his...

    • By Angelo 2022-03-28 09:01:08

      De Sica's fatal blow always appears at the very moment when it's about to end, all the pain erupts at this point, and then everyone burst into tears both inside and outside the scene. The screenplay is basically the same as "The Bicycle Stealer". In an indifferent society full of class hatred, the only thing worth showing is the miserable low-class life, and the only thing worth moving is the warmth of life and...

    • By Anais 2022-03-28 09:01:08

      4.5. This is the story of a stubborn old Korean fan who will participate in the protest against the annual change and waste medical resources! (Having worked as a civil servant for 30 years, isn't that referring to the former fascist dynasty? XD) Pity and hate coexist. What can't be put down is dignity. The characters are so well written, and the ideas are also successfully injected into the movements and postures. . Generally like "Bicycle Theft", the layout, structure, and final hook are more...

    • By Charley 2022-03-28 09:01:08

      There is no trace of tears in the wind and candle, and there is only a dog left in the old age. This kind of new realism is really...

    • By Kailyn 2022-03-27 09:01:14

      My Future Old Age Life. Great Brightness-Italian Masters...

    Movie plot

    This film tells the story of a widow and lonely old man, Humberto D, who has worked in the public construction sector in Italy for more than 30 years. However, after retirement, he only has 18,000 lire pension to support his living. The beginning was a parade of retired workers, and Humberto D was also among them. He was holding a puppy named Frank, who was shrunken in the crowd and seemed so insignificant.
    The parade was doomed to...
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    Evaluation action

    This film is Desika's most proud work and a masterpiece of Neorealism . The very concise and clear narrative, the infinite sympathy for the bottom society, and the unpretentious natural performance (the protagonist is a university professor, a non-professional actor), make people think about social injustice after tears. A movie about despair, which puts great passion on it, yet it is so gentle that it is so soft and silent. The film...
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    Movie quotes

    • Umberto Domenico Ferrari: I have no one, no son or brother, to help me out. I'm just a good-for-nothing old man.

    • Umberto Domenico Ferrari: Who can live on 18,000 lire these days? My landlady charges me 10,000. She even raised my rent, that old -...

      Orazio Valenti: Go ahead and say it. We're both men. If she's a bitch, she's a bitch.

    • Maria, la servetta: Can you see anything, Mr. Umberto?

      Umberto Domenico Ferrari: No, nothing.

      Maria, la servetta: You can a little. Did you know I'm pregnant?

      Umberto Domenico Ferrari: My God. And you say it just like that?

      Maria, la servetta: How do you want me to say it?