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Bicycle thieves

Summary: In postwar, poverty-stricken Rome, a man and his son set to look for his stolen bicycle which is his only means of making a living.

Record details

  • ISBN: 193412124X
  • Physical Description: 2 videodiscs (89 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
    videodisc
    videorecording
  • Publisher: [New York, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, 2007.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Program notes on container insert include the following essays : "A passionate commitment to the real" by film critic Godfrey Cheshire, "Ode to the common man" by filmmaker Charles Burnett, "Some ideas on the cinema" by neorealist writer Cesare Zavattini, "Bicycle Thieves" by film critic Andre Bazin, and the following remembrances : "My secret" by director De Sica, "But this is Maria" by actor Carell, "We were always on the street" by Luisa Alessandri, "The smallest detail" by Sergio Leone, " Many friends, much noise" by Manuel De Sica, "Money kills the imagination" by Maria Mercader.
Based on the novel by Luigi Bartolini.
Special features: "Working with De Sica" featurette with D'Amico, Staiola, and film scholar Callisto Cosulich; "Life as it is: The neorealist movement in Italy," featurette with film scholar Mark Shiel; Documentary by Carlo Lizzani on longtime De Sica collaborator and neorealist Cesare Zavattini.
Special features: Restored high-definition digital transfer; "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.
Title from container.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1948.
Based on the novel: Ladri de biciclette by Luigi Bartolini.
Formatted Contents Note: Disc 2, the supplements. "Working with De Sica (23 min.) -- Life as it is : the neorealist movement in Italy (40 min.) -- Cesare Zavattini (56 min.).
Creation/Production Credits Note: Direttore di produzione, Umberto Scarpelli ; montaggio, Eraldo Da Roma ; musiche del maestro, Alessandro Cicognini ; direttore di orchestra, Willy Ferrero ; tecnico del suono, Gino Fiorelli.
Participant or Performer Note: Lamberto Maggiorani, Enzo Staiola, Lianella Carell, Gino Saltamerenda, Vittorio Antonucci, Giulio Chiari.
Target Audience Note:
MPAA rating: Not rated.
System Details Note:
DVD; region 1, NTSC; (1:33:1) presentation; Dolby digital 1.0 mono.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note:
Licensed for home, classroom, and library.
For private home use only.
Licensed for: home, library, classroom, ILL.
Language Note:
In Italian or English with optional English subtitles.
Subject: Bartolini, Luigi -- 1892-1963 -- Television adaptations
Bartolini, Luigi -- 1892-1963 -- Film adaptations
Feature films -- Italy
Bicycles -- Drama
Cycling -- Italy -- Rome -- Drama
Offenses against property -- Italy -- Rome -- Drama
Fathers and sons -- Italy -- Drama
Unemployment -- Italy -- Drama
Foreign films -- Italy
Poor families -- Italy -- Rome -- Drama
Bicycles -- Italy -- Rome -- Drama
Criminal investigation -- Italy -- Rome -- Drama
Poor families -- Italy -- Drama
Fathers and sons -- Italy -- Rome -- Drama
Italy -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Drama
Ruzesky, J.
Genre: DVDs.
Video recordings.
Feature films.

Available copies

  • 4 of 4 copies available at Sitka. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at BC Public Libraries.

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Smithers Public Library DVD BIC (Text) 35101000320684 Adult DVDs -- Fiction Volume hold Available -

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