Down with Misery!

Down with Misery! (1945)

Drama

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.

Director: Gennaro Righelli
Writers: Nicola Fausto Neroni, Gennaro Righelli.

Casts

	Anna Magnani as Nannina Straselli
	Nino Besozzi as Giovanni Straselli
	Virgilio Riento as Gaetano Schioppa
	Marisa Vernati as Caterina Schioppa
	Vito Annichiarico as Nello Esposito
	Sandro Ruffini as Porzio Ray
	Lauro Gazzolo as Commendator Trombetti
	Aldo Silvani as Il compagno di cella
	Vittorio Mottini as Il padre di Nello
	Checco Durante as Il fattorino del radiogrammofono
	Giuseppe Pierozzi as Giorgio
	Mara Lopez as La figlia del commendattore
	Dina Romano as La sorella di Gaetano (uncredited)
	Claudio Ermelli as Il guardia di Finanza (uncredited)
	Felice Romano as L'altra guardia (uncredited)
	Mario Castellani as Un agente (uncredited)
	Dino Di Luca as Un'altro agente (uncredited)

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