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Bookmark this pageIl Ferroviere (1956)
Director: Pietro Germi
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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
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
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