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Bicycle Thieves (Italian: Ladri di biciclette), also known as The Bicycle Thief, is a 1948 Italian neorealist drama film directed by Vittorio De Sica. It follows the story of a poor father searching in post-World War II Rome for his stolen bicycle, without which he will lose the job which was to be the salvation of his young family.
- 24 November 1948 (Italy)
- Giuseppe Amato, Vittorio De Sica
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Dec 29, 2009 · Original version with English subtitles.
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Mar 19, 1999 · An ugly crowd gathers. A cop arrives, but can do nothing, because there is no evidence and only Ricci as witness. And then, in the famous closing sequence of the movie, Ricci is tempted to steal a bicycle himself, continuing the cycle of theft and poverty. This story is so direct it plays more like a parable than a drama.
Hailed around the world as one of the greatest movies ever made, the Academy Award–winning Bicycle Thieves, directed by Vittorio De Sica, defined an era in c...
99+ Photos. Drama. 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. Director. Vittorio De Sica. Writers. Cesare Zavattini. Luigi Bartolini. Oreste Biancoli. Stars. Lamberto Maggiorani. Enzo Staiola. Lianella Carell. See production info at IMDbPro. STREAMING. +3.
Feb 12, 2007 · Viewed 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). Though separated by World War II, the two movies symbolize the cardinal impulses that came to captivate serious audiences, critics, and filmmakers after the war. The tendencies they signaled—ones soon fused into a singular ...
