“A tender, warm, wonderfully funny film that drives straight at your heart!”
Marietto is a very lively and creative orphaned child, housed in a boarding school of nuns. One day, while browsing a newspaper, he sees a photo of a beautiful opera house dancer, Camilla, and is convinced that she is her mother.
Antonio Leonviola
Mario Monicelli
Antonio Leonviola
Piero Piccioni
Vera Tschechowa
The dancer Camilla
Marietto Angeletti
Marietto
Vittorio De Sica
Gabriele Ferzetti
Andrea
Roberto Risso
Filippo
Mario Carotenuto
The baker
Dori Dorika
The baker's wife
Pina Renzi
Superior mother
Giacomo Furia
Pastry chef
Gisella Sofio
Suor Celeste
Polidor
Lo spazino
Erminio Spalla
Un saltimbanco
EBE Cinematografica
Societa per L'Esercizio dell'Industria e del Commercio Cinematografico