The Bicycle Thief
by Vittorio De Sica
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Actor: Enzo Staiola, Gino Saltamerenda, Lamberto Maggiorani, Lianella Carell, Vittorio AntonucciDirector: Vittorio De Sica
Brand: Image Entertainment
Writer: Vittorio De Sica
Writer: Adolfo Franci
Writer: Cesare Zavattini
Writer: Gerardo Guerrieri
Writer: Luigi Bartolini
Writer: Oreste Biancoli
Writer: Suso Cecchi D'Amico
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 1.0; English (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0; Italian (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0
Format: Black & White, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 93 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1998-11-24
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Image Entertainment
Summary of The Bicycle Thief
A beautiful, simple story of a man in post-war Rome who needs his bicycle in order to work at his job. No sooner does he retrieve it from pawn, then it is stolen. The heartwrenching search teaches the man and his son much about the meaning of life and just how far we will go when pushed to the edge. Winner of a special Academy Award.Vittorio De Sica's remarkable 1947 drama of desperation and survival in Italy's devastating post-war depression earned a special Oscar for its affecting power. Shot in the streets and alleys of Rome, De Sica uses the real-life environment of contemporary life to frame his moving drama of a desperate father whose new job delivering cinema posters is threatened when a street thief steals his bicycle. Too poor to buy another, he and his son take to the streets in an impossible search for his bike. Cast with nonactors and filled with the real street life of Rome, this landmark film helped define the Italian neorealist approach with its mix of real life details, poetic imagery, and warm sentimentality. De Sica uses the wandering pair to witness the lives of everyday folks, but ultimately he paints a quiet, poignant portrait of father and son, played by nonprofessionals Lamberto Maggiorani and Enzo Staiola, whose understated performances carry the heart of the film. De Sica and scenarist Cesare Zavattini also collaborated on Shoeshine, Miracle in Milan, and Umberto D, all classics in the neorealist vein, but none of which approach the simple poetry and quiet power achieved in The Bicycle Thief. --Sean Axmaker
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