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Bicycle Thieves (Ladri di biciclette)
One Night Only – Wednesday, July 23 – 5:30pm
SBIFF’s Riviera Theatre
Hailed around the world as one of the greatest movies ever made, the Academy Award–winning Bicycle Thieves, directed by Vittorio De Sica, defined an era in cinema. In poverty-stricken postwar Rome, a man is on his first day of a new job that offers hope of salvation for his desperate family when his bicycle, which he needs for his work, is stolen. With his young son in tow, he sets off to track down the thief. Simple in construction and profoundly rich in human insight, Bicycle Thieves embodies the greatest strengths of the Italian neorealist movement: emotional clarity, social rectitude, and brutal honesty.
Directed by Vittorio De Sica
Written by Oreste Biancoli, Suso D’Amico, Vittorio De Sica, Adolfo Franci, Gerardo Guerrieri, Gherardo Gherardi, Cesare Zavattini
Starring Lamberto Maggiorani, Enzo Staiola, Lianella Carell
1948
1h 29m
