Ladri di biciclette The bicycle thief /

Ladri di biciclette The bicycle thief / [videorecording] = Bicycle thief un film P.D.S. "produzioni De Sica - S.A." ; soggetto di Cesare Zavattini, tratto dall'omonimo romanzo di Luigi Bartolini ; sceneggiato da Oreste Biancoli ... [et al.] ; regia, Vittorio De Sica. - [New York] : Chatsworth, CA : Corinth Films ; Image Entertainment Inc., 1998, c1949. - 1 videodisc (90 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.

Based on the novel by Luigi Bartolini. DVD release of the 1949 motion picture. Special features include: director's biography & filmography ; awards ; theatrical trailer in English.

1. Main title ; Getting a job -- 2. Ricci's transportation -- 3. The one who sees -- 4. The bicycle thief -- 5. Baiocco's help -- 6. The search -- 7. Rain men -- 8. "It's the thief!" -- 9. Mass hysteria -- 10. Lunch break -- 11. Back to the seer -- 12. Face to face -- 13. Desperate measures -- 14. End credits.

Photography, Carlo Montuori ; editor, Eraldo da Roma ; music, Alessandro Cicognini. Photography, Carlo Montuori ; editor, Eraldo da Roma ; music, Alessandro Cicognini.

Lamberto Maggiorani, Enzo Staiola, Lianella Carell, Gino Saltamerenda, Vittorio Antonucci, Giulio Chiari, Elena Altieri.

Story of an unemployed man and his son in war devastated Rome. The father finds a job pasting up posters, work requiring a bicycle to get around. The bicycle is stolen; panic stricken at being unable to recover his bicycle and at the prospect of losing his job, the father is compelled to steal a bicycle, only to be caught and humiliated in front of his son.


DVD format.


In Italian with English subtitles or dubbed in English.

Academy Awards, 1950: voted by the Academy Board of Governors as the most outstanding foreign language film released in the United States during 1949. Golden Globe, 1950: Best foreign film.

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4572 Corinth Films ID4572CODVD Corinth Films


Foreign films--Italy.
Motion pictures, Italian.
Realism in motion pictures.


Italy--Economic conditions--1945---Drama.


Feature films.
Film adaptations.

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