Bicycle Thieves (1948)

Bicycle Thieves (Italian: Ladri di biciclette; sometimes known in the United States as The Bicycle Thief)[4] is a 1948 Italian drama film directed by Vittorio De Sica. The film follows the story of a poor father searching post-World War II Rome for his stolen bicycle, without whi

This landmark Italian neorealist drama became one of the best-known and most widely acclaimed European movies, including a special Academy Award as

Directed by Vittorio De Sica. With Lamberto Maggiorani, Enzo Staiola, Lianella Carell, Elena Altieri. In post-war Italy, a working-class man's bicycle is stolen. He and his son set out to find it.

Hailed around the world as one of the greatest movies ever made, the Academy Award–winning Bicycle Thieves, directed by Vittorio De Sica, defined an era in cinema. In poverty-stricken postwar Rome, a man is on his first day of a new job that offers hope of salvation for his desperate family when his bicycle, which he needs for work, is stolen. With his young son in tow, he sets off to track down the thief. Simple in construction and profoundly rich in human insight, Bicycle Thieves embodies the greatest strengths of the Italian neorealist movement: emotional clarity, social rectitude, and brutal honesty.

"The Bicycle Thief" is so well-entrenched as an

Sometimes you get a film all wrong, but it’s OK to change your mind. That’s what programmer Geoff Andrew did about the films of Italian master Vittorio De Sica.

Peter Bradshaw finds this study of poverty in postwar Rome as unbearable as any horror film.

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