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Author:

Ladri di biciclette (Motion picture)

Title:

Ladri di biciclette [videorecording DVD] = Bicycle thieves / un film P.D.S. - Produzioni De Sica, S.A. ; Loggetto di Cesare Zavattini, tratto dall' omonimo romanzo di Luigi Bartolini ; scenaggiato da Oreste Biancoli ... [et al.] ; fotografia, Carlo Montuori ; regia, Vittorio De Sica.

Format:

[videorecording DVD] =

Edition:

Special ed.

Publisher:

Image Entertainment,

Copyright Date:

c2007

Description:

2 videodiscs (89 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 guide (75 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)

Subject:

Poverty--Rome--Rome--Psychological aspects--Drama.
Bicycles--Rome--Rome--Drama.
Bicycle theft--Rome--Rome--Drama.
Fathers and sons--Rome--Rome--Drama.
Rome (Italy)--Drama.
DVDs held by the Library.

Other Authors:

Zavattini, Cesare, 1902-1989.
Biancoli, Oreste.
Montuori, Carlo, 1885-1968.
De Sica, Vittorio, 1901-1974.
Maggiorani, Lamberto, 1910-1983.
Staiola, Enzo, 1939-
Carell, Lianella, 1927-
Altieri, Elena, 1919-
Saltamerenda, Gino.
Chiari, Giulio.
Antonucci, Vittorio.
Cicognini, Alessandro.
Bartolini, Luigi, 1892-1963. Ladri de biciclette.
Produzioni De Sica S.A.
Criterion Collection (Firm)
Image Entertainment (Firm)

Notes:

Lamberto Maggiorani, Enzo Staiola, Lianella Carell, Elena Altieri, Gino Saltamerenda, Giulio Chiari, Vittorio Antonucci, Michele Sakara, Fausto Guerzoni, Carlo Jachino. Based on the novel: Ladri de biciclette by Luigi Bartolini. Originally released as a motion picture in 1948. "Restored high-definition digital transfer"--Container. Special features: "Working with De Sica" featurette with D'Amico, Staiola, and film scholar Callisto Cosulich; "Life as it is: The neorealist movement in Italy," featurette with film scholar Mark Shiel; Documentary by Carlo Lizzani on longtime De Sica collaborator and neorealist Cesare Zavattini. Program notes on container insert include the following essays : "A passionate commitment to the real" by film critic Godfrey Cheshire, "Ode to the common man" by filmmaker Charles Burnett, "Some ideas on the cinema" by neorealist writer Cesare Zavattini, "Bicycle Thieves" by film critic Andre Bazin, and the following remembrances : "My secret" by director De Sica, "But this is Maria" by actor Carell, "We were always on the street" by Luisa Alessandri, "The smallest detail" by Sergio Leone, "Many friends, much noise" by Manuel De Sica, "Money kills the imagination" by Maria Mercader.

Contents:

(56 min.). Cesare Zavattini (23 min.) -- Life as it is : the neorealist movement in Italy (40 min.) -- Cesare Zavattini (56 min.).

Summary:

In post-WWII poverty-stricken Rome, a man struggles to earn a living for himself and his family. When his bicycle and main means of transport is stolen, with his young son in tow, he attempts to find the thief.

Series:

Criterion collection ; 374

ISBN:

9781934121245
193412124X

OCLC:

(OCoLC)77216072

UPC:

715515022224

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