Film
Middle-Class Train
1933 · 63 min · ★ 6.2 · Dir. Raffaello Matarazzo
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.
Starring
Marcello Spada
Giovanni
Lina Gennari
Lina
Carlo Petrangeli
Carlo
Jone Frigerio
The Jealous Wife
Maria Denis
Maria
Cesare Zoppetti
The Gallant Man
Giuseppe Pierozzi
The Abusive Traveler
Gino Viotti
The Old Man with Bow Tie
Aldo Frosi
A Traveler (uncredited)
Raffaello Matarazzo
The Director of the Band (uncredited)
Giuseppe Ricagno
A Traveler (uncredited)
Umberto Sacripante
A Traveler (uncredited)
Italo Tancredi
A Traveler (uncredited)