The film portrays the comic adventures of a group of summertime travellers. 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.
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The people behind it
Marcello Spada
Giovanni
Lina Gennari
Lina
Carlo Petrangeli
Carlo
Jone Frigerio
The Jealous Wife
Cesare Zoppetti
The Gallant Man
Maria Denis
Maria
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)
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