Lamberto Maggiorani
Antonio Ricci
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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
Bicycle Thieves: Directed by Vittorio De Sica. With Lamberto Maggiorani, Enzo Staiola, Lianella Carell, Elena Altieri. 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.
- (171K)
- Drama
- Vittorio De Sica
- 1949-12-13
Credits. 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 cinema. In poverty-stricken postwar Rome, a man is on his first day of a new job that offers hope of salvation for his desperate family when his bicycle, which he needs for work ...
- Antonio Ricci
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Mar 19, 1999 · The film, now being re-released in a new print to mark its 50s anniversay, was directed by Vittorio De Sica, who believed that everyone could play one role perfectly: himself. It was written by Cesare Zavattini , the writer associated with many of the great European directors of the 1940s through the 1970s.
Aug 13, 2020 · More than 70 years after Crowther’s enthusiastic notice — during which time Vittorio De Sica ’s fable of desperation has been imitated, satirized, analyzed and taught in schools — I’m tempted...
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.
by Vittorio De Sica. Buy Study Guide. Bicycle Thieves Summary. Buy Study Guide. In post-WII Italy, a large crowd of men gathers around an employment office in Valmelaina. Antonio, a family man, is desperate for work in the lackluster Italian economy. The employment officer miraculously offers Antonio a job hanging up posters around the city.
