TY - GEN 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. 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. T1 - Ladri di bicicletteBicycle thieves / DA - c2007. CY - [Irvington, N.Y]. : 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, ET - Special ed. VL - 374 CN - PN1997 CN - PN1997 PB - Criterion Collection : PB - Image Entertainment, PP - [Irvington, N.Y]. : LA - ita LA - eng LA - In Italian or dubbed English with optional English subtitles. PY - c2007. 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. ID - 427651 KW - Poverty KW - Unemployed KW - Bicycles KW - Bicycle theft KW - Thieves KW - Fathers and sons SN - 193412124X SN - 9781934121245 TI - Ladri di bicicletteBicycle thieves / ER -