TY - ADVS AU - Bartolini,Luigi AU - Biancoli,Oreste AU - Carell,Lianella AU - Cicognini,Alessandro AU - De Sica,Vittorio AU - Maggiorani,Lamberto AU - Montuori,Carlo AU - Staiola,Enzo AU - Zavattini,Cesare ED - Corinth Films. ED - Image Entertainment (Firm) TI - Ladri di biciclette: The bicycle thief PY - 1998///, c1949 CY - [New York], Chatsworth, CA PB - Corinth Films, Image Entertainment Inc. KW - Foreign films KW - Italy KW - Motion pictures, Italian KW - Realism in motion pictures KW - Economic conditions KW - 1945- KW - Drama KW - Feature films KW - lcgft KW - Film adaptations N1 - 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; Lamberto Maggiorani, Enzo Staiola, Lianella Carell, Gino Saltamerenda, Vittorio Antonucci, Giulio Chiari, Elena Altieri N2 - 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 ER -