The Roof is a 1956

1956 in film

The year 1956 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* October 5 - The Ten Commandments opens in cinemas and becomes one of the most successful and popular movies of all time, currently ranking 5th on the list of all time moneymakers * February 5 - First showing of documentary films by...

 Italian

Cinema of Italy

The history of Italian cinema began just a few months after the Lumière brothers had patented their Cinematographe, when Pope Leo XIII was filmed for a few seconds in the act of blessing the camera.-Early years:...

 drama film directed and produced by Vittorio De Sica

Vittorio de Sica

Vittorio De Sica was an Italian director and actor, a leading figure in the neorealist movement....

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Plot

Natale, an apprentice bricklayer, and Luisa, who has no skill, marry and try to live with Natale's parents and his seven brothers and sisters in one appartment. This is Rome about 1950. After a quarrel Natale and Luisa precipitately leave without a place to live. The remainder of the film is devoted to their finding housing. The solution- to build a one room brick dwelling as a squat on unused railway land on the outskirts of Rome. As this is illegal Natale gets his workmates to assist him during the night. Provided a dwelling has a door and a roof the householder cannot be evicted. At dawn when the police arrive to remove them the dwelling is complete except for part of the roof, but a humane policeman looks the other way. We suppose that Natale and Luisa, now pregnant, live happily ever after.

Cast

• Gabriella Pallotta
  Gabriella Pallotta
  Gabriella Pallotta is an Italian film actress. She appeared in 22 films between 1956 and 1974. For the film The Pigeon That Took Rome she was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress....
  
   - Luisa (as Gabriella Pallotti)
• Giorgio Listuzzi - Natale, Luisa's husband
• Luisa Alessandri - Signora Baj
• Angelo Bigioni
• Maria Di Fiori - Giovanna, Cesare's wife
• Maria Di Rollo - Gina
• Emilia Maritini - Luisa's mother
• Giuseppe Martini - Luisa's father
• Gastone Renzelli - Cesare, Luisa's brother-in-law
• Maria Sittoro - Natale's mother
• Angelo Visentin - Natale's father