TY  - GEN
AB  - 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.
AU  - Zavattini, Cesare,
AU  - Biancoli, Oreste.
AU  - Montuori, Carlo,
AU  - De Sica, Vittorio,
AU  - Maggiorani, Lamberto,
AU  - Staiola, Enzo,
AU  - Carell, Lianella,
AU  - Cicognini, Alessandro.
AU  - Bartolini, Luigi,
CN  - PN1997
CN  - PN1997
CY  - [Irvington, N.Y]. :
DA  - c2007.
ET  - Special ed.
ID  - 427651
KW  - Poverty
KW  - Unemployed
KW  - Bicycles
KW  - Bicycle theft
KW  - Thieves
KW  - Fathers and sons
LA  - ita
LA  - eng
LA  - In Italian or dubbed English with optional English subtitles.
N1  - Based on the novel: Ladri de biciclette by Luigi Bartolini.
N1  - Originally released as a motion picture in 1948.
N1  - "Restored high-definition digital transfer"--Container.
N1  - 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.
N1  - 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.
N2  - 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.
PB  - Criterion Collection :
PB  - Image Entertainment,
PP  - [Irvington, N.Y]. :
PY  - c2007.
SN  - 193412124X
SN  - 9781934121245
T1  - Ladri di bicicletteBicycle thieves /
TI  - Ladri di bicicletteBicycle thieves /
VL  - 374
ER  -