Down with Misery!
79 mins
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.
Marisa Vernati
Caterina Schioppa
Vito Annichiarico
Nello Esposito
Vittorio Mottini
Il padre di Nello
Mara Lopez
La figlia del commendattore
Dina Romano
La sorella di Gaetano (uncredited)
Felice Romano
L'altra guardia (uncredited)
Dino Di Luca
Un'altro agente (uncredited)
Rodolfo Lombardi
Director of Photography
Umberto Bompani
Production Manager
Umberto Mancini
Original Music Composer
Ugo Giacomozzi
Conductor
Gino Brosio
Set Decoration
Alfredo Manzi
Production Design
Kurt Doubrowsky
Sound
Duilio A. Lucarelli
Editor
Valentino Brosio
Production Coordinator
Nicola Fausto Neroni
Screenplay