TY - ADVS AU - De Sica,Vittorio AU - De Sica,Vittorio AU - Zavattini,Cesare AU - Cecchi d'Amico,Suso AU - Guerrieri,Gerardo AU - Maggiorani,Lamberto AU - Staiola,Enzo AU - Carell,Lianella AU - Saltamerenda,Gino AU - Antonucci,Vittorio AU - Chiari,Giulio AU - Altieri,Elena AU - Montuori,Carlo AU - Cicognini,Alessandro AU - Bartolini,Luigi ED - Criterion Collection (Firm) ED - Image Entertainment (Firm) TI - Bicycle thieves: Ladri de biciclette T2 - The Criterion collection SN - 193412124X AV - PN1995.9.M45 B539354 2007 U1 - 791.4372 PY - 2007/// CY - Irvington, N.Y, Santa Monica, Calif PB - Criterion Collection, Distributed by Image Entertainment KW - Poor families,Bicycle, Poverty, bicycle - main means of transport, bicycle-stolen, attempts to find the thief,Criminal investigation,Offenses against property,Rome- Italy, Melodrama, Drama, Cycling, Fathers and sons N1 - Based on the novel by Luigi Bartolini; Bicycle Thieves is a 1948 Italian neorealist drama film directed by Vittorio De Sica. It follows the story of a poor father searching in post-World War II Rome for his stolen bicycle, without which he will lose the job which was to be the salvation of his young family. Adapted for the screen by Cesare Zavattini from the 1946 novel by Luigi Bartolini, and starring Lamberto Maggiorani as the desperate father and Enzo Staiola as his plucky young son, Bicycle Thieves received an Academy Honorary Award (most outstanding foreign language film) in 1950, and in 1952 was deemed the greatest film of all time by Sight & Sound magazine's poll of filmmakers and critics. In Short : In post-World War- II 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; Cinematographer, Carlo Montuori ; editor, Eraldo Da Roma ; original music, Alessandro Cicognini; Lamberto Maggiorani, Enzo Staiola, Lianella Carell, Gino Saltamerenda, Vittorio Antonucci, Giulio Chiari, Elena Altieri; Not rated UR - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJza7EhoWyQ ER -