Down with Misery! (1945)

Plot Summary

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.

Full Cast & Characters

Anna Magnani

Nannina Straselli

Nino Besozzi

Giovanni Straselli

Virgilio Riento

Gaetano Schioppa

Marisa Vernati

Caterina Schioppa

Vito Annichiarico

Nello Esposito

Sandro Ruffini

Porzio Ray

Lauro Gazzolo

Commendator Trombetti

Aldo Silvani

Il compagno di cella

Vittorio Mottini

Il padre di Nello

Checco Durante

Il fattorino del radiogrammofono

Giuseppe Pierozzi

Giorgio

Mara Lopez

La figlia del commendattore

Director & Crew

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