Down with Misery! (1945)
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.
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Anna Magnani as Nannina Straselli |
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Nino Besozzi as Giovanni Straselli |
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Virgilio Riento as Gaetano Schioppa |
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Marisa Vernati as Caterina Schioppa |
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Vito Annichiarico as Nello Esposito |
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Sandro Ruffini as Porzio Ray |
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Lauro Gazzolo as Commendator Trombetti |
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Aldo Silvani as Il compagno di cella |
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Vittorio Mottini as Il padre di Nello |
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Checco Durante as Il fattorino del radiogrammofono |
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Giuseppe Pierozzi as Giorgio |
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Mara Lopez as La figlia del commendattore |
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Dina Romano as La sorella di Gaetano (uncredited) |
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Claudio Ermelli as Il guardia di Finanza (uncredited) |
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Felice Romano as L'altra guardia (uncredited) |
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Mario Castellani as Un agente (uncredited) |
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Dino Di Luca as Un'altro agente (uncredited) |
| Camera | Rodolfo Lombardi | Director of Photography |
| Directing | Gennaro Righelli | Director |
| Sound | Kurt Doubrowsky | Sound |
| Sound | Ugo Giacomozzi | Conductor |
| Editing | Duilio A. Lucarelli | Editor |
| Production | Umberto Bompani | Production Manager |
| Sound | Umberto Mancini | Original Music Composer |
| Writing | Gennaro Righelli | Story |
| Art | Alfredo Manzi | Production Design |
| Production | Valentino Brosio | Production Coordinator |
| Writing | Nicola Fausto Neroni | Screenplay |
| Art | Gino Brosio | Set Decoration |
| Writing | Gennaro Righelli | Screenplay |