Middle-Class Train

Middle-Class Train

63 mins | Comedy | Nov. 1, 1933

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

63 mins | Comedy | Nov. 1, 1933

Middle-Class Train
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.
IMDb rating 7.0
Producers Artisti Associati, Società Anonima Film Italiani Roma (SAFIR)
Original title Treno popolare
Directors Marcello Caccialupi, Raffaello Matarazzo
Writers Gino Mazzucchi, Gastone Bossio, Raffaello Matarazzo

Cast

Marcello Spada

as Giovanni

Lina Gennari

as Lina

Carlo Petrangeli

as Carlo

Jone Frigerio

as The Jealous Wife

Cesare Zoppetti

as The Gallant Man

Maria Denis

as Maria

Giuseppe Pierozzi

as The Abusive Traveler

Gino Viotti

as The Old Man with Bow Tie

Aldo Frosi

as A Traveler (uncredited)

Raffaello Matarazzo

as The Director of the Band (uncredited)

Giuseppe Ricagno

as A Traveler (uncredited)

Umberto Sacripante

as A Traveler (uncredited)

Italo Tancredi

as A Traveler (uncredited)