Bicycle thieves = Ladri di biciclette / story by Cesare Zavattini ; screenplay by Vittorio De Sica, Cesare Zavattini, Suso Cecchi d'Amico, Gerardo Guerrieri ; directed by Vittorio De Sica.
Edition:
Blu-ray special edition.
Publisher:
The Criterion Collection,
Copyright Date:
2016
Description:
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (33 pages : illustrations ; 16 cm)
Title from sell sheet. Lamberto Maggiorani, Lianella Carell, Gino Saltamerenda, Vittorio Antonucci, Giulio Chiari. Based on the novel by Luigi Bartolini. Originally released as a motion picture in 1948. Special features: "Working with De Sica" a collection of interviews; "Life as it is" a program on the history of Italian neorealism; documentary from 2003 on screenwriter Cesare Zavattini; book.
Summary:
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, is stolen. With his young son in tow, he sets off to track down the thief.
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