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In post-World War II Rome, Antonio Ricci (Lamberto Maggiorani) is desperate for work to support his wife Maria (Lianella Carell), his son Bruno (Enzo Staiola), and his baby. He is offered a position posting advertising bills but tells Maria that he cannot accept because the job requires his bicycle, which he has pawned.

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Maria resolutely strips the bed of her dowry bedsheets—prized possessions for a poor family—and takes them to the pawn office, where they are exchanged for Antonio's hocked bicycle. (A memorable shot shows the sheets being added to a mountain of bedding pawned by other families.) They cycle home—Maria on the handlebars—rejoicing in their good fortune. Along the way Maria insists to Antonio's derision on leaving money for a seer who had prophesied Antonio would find work.

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On his first day of work Antonio is atop a ladder when a young man (Vittorio Antonucci) snatches the bicycle. He gives chase but is thrown off the trail by the thief's confederates. The police take a report but warn that there is little they can do. Advised that stolen goods often find their way to the Piazza Vittorio market, Antonio goes there with several friends and his small son Bruno. They locate a bike that might be Antonio's and summon an officer, but the serial number does not match.

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At the Porta Portese market Antonio and Bruno spot the thief with an old man. They pursue the thief but he eludes them. They demand the thief's identity from the old man, but he feigns ignorance. They follow him into a church, but he slips away from them.

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Antonio has Bruno wait by a bridge while Antonio searches for the old man. Suddenly there are cries that a boy is drowning. Antonio rushes toward the commotion and is relieved to see that the drowning boy is not Bruno. Antonio treats Bruno to lunch in a restaurant, where they momentarily forget their troubles, but on seeing a rich family enjoying a fine meal, Antonio is again seized by his calamity and tortures himself by reckoning his lost earnings.

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Hailed around the world as one of the greatest movies ever made, Vittorio De Sica’s Academy Award–winning Bicycle Thieves (Ladri di biciclette) defined an era in cinema. In postwar, poverty-stricken Rome, a man, hoping to support his desperate family with a new job, loses his bicycle, his main means of transportation for work. With his wide-eyed young son in tow, he sets off to track down the thief. Simple in construction and dazzlingly rich in human insight, Bicycle Thieves embodied all the greatest strengths of the neorealist film movement in Italy: emotional clarity, social righteousness, and brutal honesty.

Bicycle Thieves (Italian: Ladri di biciclette), also known as The Bicycle Thief, is director Vittorio De Sica's 1948 story of a poor father searching post-World War II Rome for his stolen bicycle, without which he will lose the job which was to be the salvation of his young family.

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.: Italian :.
Un operaio disoccupato trova un posto d'attacchino municipale, ma ci vuole la bicicletta. L'operaio ne possiede una ma è al monte di pietà. Niente paura: la moglie impegna le lenzuola e riscatta la bicicletta. L'attacchino incomincia il suo lavoro, ma dopo meno di un'ora, un ragazzaccio gli ruba questa preziosa bicicletta. Tenta d'inseguirlo ma è inutile. L'uomo ritorna a casa in preda alla disperazione. Denuncia il furto al Commissariato, ma non gli danno nessuna speranza. Nessuno prende interesse al suo caso all'infuori di un amico spazzino. L'attacchino si aggira tra i rivenditori di biciclette: non trova la sua, ma intravede il ladro e si dà ad inseguirlo, accompagnato dal figliolo, un bimbo di sei anni. L'inseguimento gli fa attraversare tutta Roma in un giorno di domenica: vediamo così la "messa del povero", una trattoria, una casa equivoca, infine il domicilio del ladruncolo. L'attacchino trova dovunque indifferenza od ostilità. Infine, esasperato, pensa di rivalersi, rubando una bicicletta incustodita, ma lo fa così goffamente che viene subito preso e solo i pianti del bambino lo salvano dall'arresto. Padre e figlio tornano a casa, esausti, disperati, piangenti.

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Extra Features:

* New, 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, a new program on the history of Italian neorealism, featuring scholar Mark Shiel
* A 2003 documentary on screenwriter and longtime Vittorio De Sica collaborator Cesare Zavattini, directed by Carlo Lizzani
* Optional English-dubbed soundtrack
* New and improved English subtitle translation

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