Indigent pensioner in poverty-stricken post-war Italy barely makes both ends meet. He spends almost all his money for a food for his dog (he madly loves it!). The landlady of the flat where he rents room dreams of the moment when she will be able to evict him: she's tired of his permanent debts and want to have more floor space. At last she starts repair and he has to go away and knock about the world. He thinks of suicide but what about his only beloved creature - the dog?..

Neorealists cannot but irritate: general poverty that leads to visual poverty of the picture, dreadful non-professional actors that destroy all director's effort, forced mawkish sentimentality etc. All this problems are in this movie too.

Simple (I'd say - banal) story is told straightforwardly, without any crotchets: camera just follow characters and don't express any feelings (excluding the only one scene that I'd like to choose especially - when cat on the roof wakes housemaid Maria - and then she goes to the kitchen, it's strangely but the reality is shown with boundless love in this scene); editing is such impotent that cannot create emotions. Unfortunately, the film is too shallow - no wisdom, no profundity. Sentimental melodrama and no more. One of the greatest disappointments of last time for me.
4/10

P.S. My disappointment is so great that I don't know what to write so excuse me for such short review on the classic movie.