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The Roof

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Initial release Italy
Directors Vittorio De Sica
Costume designFabrizio Carafa
Screenplay Cesare Zavattini
Producers Vittorio De Sica
Date of Reg.
Date of Upd.
ID2592023
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Natale (Giorgio Listuzzi) and Luisa (Gabriella Pallotti) marry and move in with Natale's family. The young couple are soon at each others' throats when they're unable to get any privacy. Realizing they need their own house but lacking money, they decide to build a house for themselves on unclaimed land. The law states any building with a roof cannot be pulled down, so with the help of friends and family, the pair struggles to build a modest dwelling in one night before the police arrive. … MORE

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... " I thought something had hit The Roof of my house, it was terrifying, " she said...

'Airspace' above Battersea house to be auctioned

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... The sale listing states the freeholder " will be providing landlord s consent to develop" on top of The Roof of the flat below...

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... " We did have to shut for three weeks because a baby seagull got into The Roof void and dislodged a whole load of asbestos, " says Louis Mitchell, chief executive of the Bristol Music Trust, which runs the building...

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... Prof Abu-Sittah described how parts of the hospital were on fire and The Roof of an operating theatre fell in...

How the Elgin Marbles scream injustice for most Greeks

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... " But wouldn t the process of moving the friezes seriously endanger them, I ask? Aren t they better off at the British Museum, as the British government argues? " I used to live in London and I remember one day I saw at the British Museum how The Roof was leaking...

What should happen to a Glen Coe cottage tainted by Jimmy Savile?

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... Graffiti covers the walls of the cottage in Glen Coe, the windows are smashed and a bicycle wheel has been thrown on to The Roof...

Reading fire: Crane rescues worker next to burning high rise

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... Video footage from social media shows a person being lifted by a crane from The Roof of a building, prompting applause from a crowd below...

Inside West Bank district under harsh Israeli lockdown since Hamas attack

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... " This is the closed place inside the closed place, " said Muhammad Mohtaseb, a 30-year-old hospital security guard, sitting on The Roof of his house opposite the mosque...

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