---
title: 'Bread, Love and Dreams (1953)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Luigi Comencini'
released: '1953-12-04'
runtime_minutes: 93
genres:
  - 'Romance'
countries:
  - 'Italy'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/bread-love-and-dreams-1953'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046159/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Bread, Love and Dreams (1953)

1953 · 93 min · Romance · Italy

Original title: Pane, amore e fantasia

## Synopsis

Bread, Love and Dreams is a 1953 Italian romantic comedy film directed by Luigi Comencini. At the 4th Berlin International Film Festival it won the Silver Bear award. In 2008, the film was included on the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage’s 100 Italian films to be saved, a list of 100 films that "have changed the collective memory of the country between 1942 and 1978".

## Credits

- **Screenplay:** [Vittorio De Sica](https://cinepixo.com/people/vittorio-de-sica), [Luigi Comencini](https://cinepixo.com/people/luigi-comencini), [Ettore Margadonna](https://cinepixo.com/people/ettore-margadonna)
- **Director:** [Luigi Comencini](https://cinepixo.com/people/luigi-comencini)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Alessandro Cicognini](https://cinepixo.com/people/alessandro-cicognini)
- **Director of Photography:** [Arturo Gallea](https://cinepixo.com/people/arturo-gallea)
- **Editor:** [Mario Serandrei](https://cinepixo.com/people/mario-serandrei)

## Cast

- [Vittoria Crispo](https://cinepixo.com/people/vittoria-crispo)
- [Ada Colangeli](https://cinepixo.com/people/ada-colangeli)
- [Alfredo Rizzo](https://cinepixo.com/people/alfredo-rizzo)
- [Gigi Reder](https://cinepixo.com/people/gigi-reder)
- [Roberto Risso](https://cinepixo.com/people/roberto-risso)
- [Marisa Merlini](https://cinepixo.com/people/marisa-merlini)
- [Fausto Guerzoni](https://cinepixo.com/people/fausto-guerzoni)
- [Vittorio De Sica](https://cinepixo.com/people/vittorio-de-sica)
- [Memmo Carotenuto](https://cinepixo.com/people/memmo-carotenuto)
- [Nietta Zocchi](https://cinepixo.com/people/nietta-zocchi)
- [Amalia Pellegrini](https://cinepixo.com/people/amalia-pellegrini)
- [Checco Rissone](https://cinepixo.com/people/checco-rissone)
- [Virgilio Riento](https://cinepixo.com/people/virgilio-riento)
- [Guglielmo Barnabò](https://cinepixo.com/people/guglielmo-barnabo)
- [Maria Pia Casilio](https://cinepixo.com/people/maria-pia-casilio)

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