Film

Movie theaters, reviews and showtimes in New York, plus articles, trailers and more
 

Il Ferroviere (1956)

Director: Pietro Germi

Average user rating
No reviews

Movie review

From Time Out Film Guide

The director himself plays a boozy, autocratic engine driver who severs relations with his daughter over her love life and chases away his elder son, who's immersed in the usual teenage troubles. A suicide dies under his train, his drinking increases. He refuses to join a strike and is ostracised. Eight-year-old Sandrino, a chubby charmer, hovers on the periphery, half-understanding, but more concerned with not letting dad see his poor school reports. It all ends in a warm Dickensian bath of Christmas Eve reconciliation. The blend of sharp observation and slick sentimentality is characteristic of the neo-realist cycle, of which this is a late, quite entertaining example.

Author: BBa

Time Out Film Guide

  • Print this page
  • Send to a friend

What do you think?
Post your review now

clear rating
Min 1 star. Zero stars will be treated as unrated.

*mandatory fields


Cast & crew

Director: Pietro Germi

Producer: Carlo Ponti

Cast: Pietro Germi, Luisa Della Noce, Sylva Koscina, Edoardo Nevola, Saro Urzi full cast

Duration: 116 mins


Features

Oliver's army

Oliver's army

W. returns Hollywood's provocateur to the big political canvas.

Bridesmaid revisited

Anne Hathaway crashes more than a wedding in Rachel Getting Married.

Old-school house

Even in the age of the multiplex, a few old movie theaters continue to thrive in NYC.

Keeping the faith

Hope abounds in Spike Lee’s latest—as it does in the director himself.

Going the distance

TONY toughs out the Toronto International Film Festival, blow by blow.

Race you to the top

Tyler Perry doesn’t need critics—and may not need new audiences.

Spanish intuition

Scarlett Johansson and Rebecca Hall flirt away an Iberian summer in Vicky Cristina Barcelona.