Based on the novel "Toto il buono" by Cesare Zavattini.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1951.

Full screen (1.37:1).

Special features: new 4K digital restoration; new interview with neorealism expert and film scholar David Forgacs; audio interview from the late 1960s in which director Vittorio De Sica looks back on his career, conducted by film critic Gideon Bachmann; Interviews with actor Brunella Bovo and Manuel De Sica, the director's son; Feature-length documentary from 2019 on screenwriter Cesare Zavattini; Trailers; New English subtitle translation; An essay by film critic Christina Newland.

Accompanied by insert containing essay by film critic Christina Newland: It is goodness.

Photography by G. R. Aldo ; editing, Eraldo Da Roma ; music by Alessandro Cicognini.

Emma Gramatica, Francesco Golisano, Paolo Stoppa, Guglielmo Barnabo, Brunella Bovo, Anna Carena.

"Renowned filmmaker Vittorio De Sica followed up his international triumph Bicycle Thieves with this enchantingly playful neorealist fairy tale, in which he combines his celebrated slice-of-life poetry with flights of graceful comedy and storybook fantasy. On the outskirts of Milan, a band of vagabonds work together to form a shantytown. When it is discovered that the land they occupy contains oil, however, it's up to the cherubic orphan Toto (Francesco Golisano)--with some divine help--to save their community from greedy developers. Tipping their hats to the imaginative whimsy of Charles Chaplin and Rene Clair, De Sica and screenwriter Cesare Zavattini, adapting his own novel, craft a big-hearted ode to the nobility of everyday people"--Container.

DVD; NTSC, region 1; Dolby monaural.

Italian dialogue; English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.