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Miracle in Milan
ITALY · 1951

Miracle in Milan

Vittorio De Sica
magical realism poverty and social class childhood innocence redemption through kindness urban fantasy
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Synopsis

Italian neorealist fantasy. Spielberg cited the final flying sequence as direct inspiration for E.T.

This Film Influenced

→ E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)

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