DVD
Bicycle thieves = Ladri de biciclette
Call Number
- DVD FOREIGN (CEN)
Edition
Full screen version.
Languages
Italian dialogue with optional English subtitles.
Performers
Lamberto Maggiorani, Enzo Staiola, Lianella Carell, Gino Saltamerenda, Vittorio Antonucci, Giulio Chiari, Elena Altieri.
Publication Information
Irvington, N.Y. : Criterion Collection : Image Entertainment [distributor, 2007]
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (89 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 guide (75 p.)
Audience
Not rated.
Summary
In postwar, poverty-stricken Rome, a man, hoping to support his desperate family with a new job, loses his bicycle and main means of transportation to work. With his wide-eyed young son in tow, he sets off to track down the thief.
Notes
Title from container.
Based on the novel by Luigi Bartolini.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1948.
Special features: "Working with De Sica": a collection of new interviews with screenwriter Suso Cecchi D'Amico, actor Enzo Staiola, and film scholar Callisto Cosulich; "Life as it is": new program on the history of Italian neorealism in cinema, with scholar Mark Shiel; documentary on screenwriter and longtime Vittorio De Sica collaborator Cesare Zavattini, directed by Carlo Lizzani.