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Antonio Ricci, an unemployed man in the depressed post-WWII economy of Italy, finally gets a job hanging up posters, but he needs a bicycle. When his bicycle is stolen, he and son walk the streets of Rome looking for it. Antonio finally manages to locate the thief, yet, with no proof he must abandon his cause.
For Bicycle Thieves, de Sica could not obtain financial backing from a studio, so he raised the money to make the film by asking his friends for help. A rainstorm was provided with the help of the ...
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The inspiration for Bicycle Thieves was Luigi Bartolini's satirical novel, subtitled A Comic Novel of the Theft and Recovery of a Bicycle Three Times Over, although Zavattini and his co-writers developed the idea into a more sober and realistic economic and social critique. Zavattini wrote the script together with De Sica and another five writers, Oreste Biancoli, Suso D'amico, Adolfo Franci, Gherardo Gherardi and Gerardo Guerrieri.
Bicycle Thieves (1948) The film that topped Sight and Sound’s inaugural Greatest Films of All Time poll in 1952, Vittorio De Sica’s indelible neorealist parable offers a sharp-eyed portrait of Italy’s post-war privations. A landmark of humanist filmmaking, Bicycle Thieves was a key work in the 1940s film movement known as Italian neo-realism.
Feb 12, 2007 · Viewed in retrospect, much of modern cinema can seem to flow from twin fountainheads: Orson Welles’s Citizen Kane (1941) and Vittorio De Sica’s Bicycle Thieves (1948). Though separated by World War II, the two movies symbolize the cardinal impulses that came to captivate serious audiences, critics, and filmmakers after the war. The tendencies they signaled—ones soon fused into a singular aesthetic by the French new wave—are not so much divergent as complementary. Where Citizen Kane ...
Apr 1, 2017 · 89 min. Release Date. 12/22/1948. Bicycle Thieves takes place at a very specific time under a unique series of social conditions that shape both its narrative and its embrace of the Neorealist message. Though its specificity may seem to preclude it from appealing to larger audiences, Italian director Vittorio De Sica’s film is universally ...
Aug 18, 2015 · Bicycle Thieves positions itself as the default neo-realism masterpiece. An era begun by Rome, Open City in 1945 , Vittorio De Sica’s (1902-1974) Bicycle Thieves is a considerably smaller story.
