Umberto D.

Umberto Domenico Ferrari is a retired civil servant living on a meager pension in post-war Rome. He rents a room in a boarding house whose landlady pressures him constantly for overdue rent and threatens to evict him and his dog, Flike. With no way to raise the money, and with only a young maid named Maria and the dog as companions, he struggles to keep his dignity while his circumstances close in around him.

Vittorio De Sica directed the film, working from a screenplay by Cesare Zavattini, with Giuseppe Amato, Angelo Rizzoli and De Sica producing. It followed Shoeshine, Bicycle Thieves and Miracle in Milan in De Sica's filmography, and was made in the neorealist mode for which he had become known. Carlo Battisti, a non-professional actor, plays Umberto, with Maria Pia Casilio as Maria and Napoleone the dog as Flike.

The film has an audience rating of 7.9 out of 10 on TMDB from 766 votes, while critics rate it higher, at 9 out of 10 from 41 reviews. That gap suggests a work whose reputation among critics rests on its restrained portrayal of poverty and old age, even if it reaches a narrower general audience than some of De Sica's other films.