Umberto D. by Vittorio De Sica (Film 1952-ENG SUB)

Umberto D. is a 1952 Italian neorealist film directed by Vittorio De Sica. Audio in Italian with English subtitles (click on CC for subtitles.)

The movie was included in TIME magazine's "All-TIME 100 Movies" in 2005. The film's sets were designed by Virgilio Marchi. In 2008, the film was included on the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage’s 100 Italian films to be saved, a list of 100 films that "have changed the collective memory of the country between 1942 and 1978."

In an interview where he discussed Diary of a Country Priest, Psycho and Citizen Kane, Ingmar Bergman is quoted as saying, "Umberto D. is ... a movie I have seen a hundred times, that I may love most of all." Martin Scorsese included it on a list of "39 Essential Foreign Films for a Young Filmmaker." Roger Ebert included the film in his selection of Great Movies, writing that "Vittorio De Sica's Umberto D (1952) is the story of the old man's struggle to keep from falling from poverty into shame. It may be the best of the Italian neorealist films-the one that is most simply itself, and does not reach for its effects or strain to make its message clear."

Vittorio De Sica was nominated for the Grand Prix – 1952 Cannes Film Festival. 1955 New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Foreign Film. Cesare Zavattini was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Story at the 29th Academy Awards in 1957.

Most of the actors were non-professional, including Carlo Battisti who plays the title role of Umberto Domenico Ferrari, a poor elderly man in Rome who is desperately trying to keep his rented room. His landlady (Lina Gennari) is evicting him and his only true friends, the housemaid (Maria-Pia Casilio) and his dog Flike (called 'Flag' in some subtitled versions of the film) are of no help.

Cast & Characters:
Carlo Battisti as Umberto Domenico Ferrari
Maria-Pia Casilio as Maria, the maid
Lina Gennari as Antonia Belloni, the landlady
Ileana Simova as the woman in Umberto's room
Elena Rea as the nun at the hospital
Memmo Carotenuto as a patient at the hospital
Alberto Albari Barbieri as Antonia's friend
Napoleone as Flike [uncredited]