Lamberto Maggiorani
Antonio Ricci
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May 27, 2023. Feb 4, 2023. Unemployed Antonio Ricci (Lamberto Maggiorani) is elated when he finally finds work hanging posters around war-torn Rome. His wife, Maria (Lianella Carell), sells the...
Mar 19, 1999 · The Bicycle Thief / Bicycle Thieves. Roger Ebert March 19, 1999. Tweet. Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. "The Bicycle Thief" is so well-entrenched as an official masterpiece that it is a little startling to visit it again after many years and realize that it is still alive and has strength and freshness.
Aug 13, 2020 · Aug. 13, 2020. “People should see it — and they should care.” Those are the concluding words to one of the more passionate raves in the annals of New York Times film criticism: Bosley Crowther’s...
Feb 12, 2007 · Bicycle Thieves: A Passionate Commitment to the Real | Current | The Criterion Collection. By Godfrey Cheshire. Essays — Feb 12, 2007. V iewed in retrospect, much of modern cinema can seem to flow from twin fountainheads: Orson Welles’s Citizen Kane (1941) and Vittorio De Sica’s Bicycle Thieves (1948).
Summaries. In post-war Italy, a working-class man's bicycle is stolen, endangering his efforts to find work. He and his son set out to find it. Antonio Ricci, an unemployed man in the depressed post-WWII economy of Italy, finally gets a job hanging up posters, but he needs a bicycle.
With his young son in tow, he sets off to track down the thief. Simple in construction and profoundly rich in human insight, BICYCLE THIEVES embodies the greatest strengths of the Italian neorealist movement: emotional clarity, social rectitude, and brutal honesty. Show more.
Bicycle Thieves (1948) The film that topped Sight and Sound’s inaugural Greatest Films of All Time poll in 1952, Vittorio De Sica’s indelible neorealist parable offers a sharp-eyed portrait of Italy’s post-war privations. Subscribe to watch on BFI Player. Watch and discover. Sight and Sound.
