The recipient of much international acclaim Vittorio de Sica's Italian Neorealist masterwork Ladri Di Biciclette (US title: The Bicycle Thief) finally makes its way to DVD. After nearly two years of unemployment Antonio (Lamberto Maggiorani) finally finds work posting bills. But he needs a bicycle to do the job. Unfortunately he was forced to pawn his own bicycle long ago. In a humbling tragic scene Antonio exchanges his family's linen for his bicycl
Vittorio de Sica's Bicycle Thieves is perhaps the most influential movie ever made. But on top of that it is one of the most beautiful, with an ending able to reduce the most cold hearted old sod to tears.
The film tells the story of a post-war Italian man's struggle to find and then keep work, made possible by the possession of a bicyle. The bicycle gets stolen and he and his young son set out desperately across Rome to find it again. Add to this the relationship between the man and his son and his sons adoration of his father and you have it.
Anyone can and should enjoy this movie.
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