Marcello Spada
2021Treno popolare
Raffaello Matarazzo
Marcello Spada, Lina Gennari
His 1933 debut, following some years as a journalist and then script boy, was Treno popolare, an early sound lark about several Roman petit bourgeois on a day trip to the country that was influenced by the German proto-neorealist silent picture People on Sunday (1930). Produced at the height of the fascist era, Treno popolare was nonetheless free of propaganda, and featured the first film score by the legendary composer Nino Rota.
Middle-Class Train
La tavola dei poveri
Alessandro Blasetti
Raffaele Viviani, Leda Gloria
A bankrupt aristocrat tries to keep up appearances while his situation worsens. To top it off the life savings given to him by a beggar to invest has been mistakenly claimed by the aristocrat's altruist society for their annual Feast of the Poor.
The Table of the Poor
