BICYCLE THIEVES

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• Release Year: 1948
• Genre: Drama
• Plot: Hailed around the world as one of the greatest movies ever made, Vittorio De Sica's Academy Award-winning Bicycle Thieves defined an era in cinema. In postwar, poverty-stricken Rome, a man hoping to support his desperate family with a new job loses his bicycle, his main means of transportation for work. With his wide-eyed young son in tow, he sets off to track down the thief. Simple in construction and dazzlingly rich in human insight, Bicycle Thieves embodied all the greatest strengths of the Italian neorealist movement: emotional clarity, social righteousness, and brutal honesty.
• Cast: Lamberto Maggiorani, Enzo Staiola, Lianella Carell, Gino Saltamerenda, Vittorio Antonucci, Giulio Chiari, Elena Altieri, Carlo Jachino, Michele Sakara, Emma Druetti, Fausto Guerzoni, Giulio Battiferri, Ida Bracci Dorati, Nando Bruno, Eolo Capritti, Memmo Carotenuto, Giovanni Corporale, Sergio Leone, Mario Meniconi, Massimo Randisi, Checco Rissone, Peppino Spadaro, Umberto Spadaro, Vittorio De Sica, Luigi Bartolini, Cesare Zavattini, Suso Cecchi d'Amico, Oreste Biancoli, Adolfo Franci, Gerardo Guerrieri, Giuseppe Amato, Carlo Montuori, Eraldo Da Roma, Alessandro Cicognini
• Director: Vittorio De Sica
• Runtime: 1:29
• Company: Janus Films, CristaldiFilm, Scalera/Invicta Film, Produzioni De Sica, The Criterion Collection, Image Entertainment
• Media Format: Movie