Umberto D.
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DVD Details
- Rated: Unrated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 29 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: July 22, 2003
- Originally Released: 1952
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Carlo Battisi & Maria Pia Casilio | |
Featured: | Alberto Albani Barbieri, Lina Genneri & Ileana Simova | |
Directed by | Vittorio De Sica | |
Edited by | Eraldo Da Roma | |
Screenplay by | Cesare Zavattini | |
Composition by | Alessandro Cicognini | |
Cinematography by | G.R. Aldo | |
Story by | Cesare Zavattini | |
Produced by | Giuseppe Amato, Vittorio De Sica & Angelo Rizzoli |
Entertainment Reviews:
[A] heart-rending tale...
Sight and Sound
...[UMBERTO D.] creates magic of a completely different sort. It makes the unlikeliest subject unforgettable, finding drama, beauty, even poetry in simple things and simple lives...
Los Angeles Times
Umberto D. could have been one of the most depressing movies ever made, but instead it's one of the most heartfelt.
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Combustible Celluloid
...Fifty years later, its rigorous sentiment, played with a miraculous naturalness, puts a face and soul on all hapless men and women living out their last years in anonymous despair...
Entertainment Weekly
Vittorio De Sica's memorable ''Umberto D'' seems more sentimental now, but as you stay with it, the small story grows to a most moving climax.
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New York Times
Rating: 4/4 --
...a picture of a man who has been cast into a dehumanizing vortex, largely because of others' indifference.
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LarsenOnFilm
...UMBERTO D is rightly held as a classic....The new 35 millimeter print has been restored....It's a stunning achievement in service of a deserving film...
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Product Description:
UMBERTO D., from director Vittorio De Sica, is a simple, heartbreaking tale about the life of an elderly pensioner. Penniless and alone, with only the maid (Lina Genneri) from his rooming house and a devoted dog for companionship, the old man (Carlo Battisti) contemplates suicide. But then one day, a ray of hope pierces his bleak existence, and everything changes. This careful observation of one man's attempt to keep his dignity in the face of a hostile society is one of the pearls of Italian post-war cinema.
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- UPC: 037429176122
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