Middle-Class Train

Comedy · 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.

Starring

Nino Rota, Nino Rota, Marcello Spada, Domenico Scala, Lina Gennari, Anchise Brizzi, Carlo Petrangeli, Anchise Brizzi, Raffaello Matarazzo, Jone Frigerio, Raffaello Matarazzo, Cesare Zoppetti

Director

Raffaello Matarazzo

Producer

Gastone Bossio