Down with Misery!
(1945)

Released: 1945-12-27

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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.

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Anna Magnani

as Nannina Straselli

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Nino Besozzi

as Giovanni Straselli

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Virgilio Riento

as Gaetano Schioppa

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Marisa Vernati

as Caterina Schioppa

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Vito Annichiarico

as Nello Esposito

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Sandro Ruffini

as Porzio Ray

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Lauro Gazzolo

as Commendator Trombetti

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Aldo Silvani

as Il compagno di cella

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Vittorio Mottini

as Il padre di Nello

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Checco Durante

as Il fattorino del radiogrammofono

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Mara Lopez

as La figlia del commendattore

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Dina Romano

as La sorella di Gaetano (uncredited)

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Claudio Ermelli

as Il guardia di Finanza (uncredited)

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Felice Romano

as L'altra guardia (uncredited)

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Mario Castellani

as Un agente (uncredited)

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Dino Di Luca

as Un'altro agente (uncredited)

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