Director: Vittorio de Sica
Country of origin: Italy
Year of release: 1948
Running time: 93'
Language: Italian, with English subtitles
The Academy-Award winning Bicycle Thieves has been hailed as one of the greatest films ever made, and one of the most influential. Set in early post-World War II Rome, Bicycle Thieves centres around Antonio, a man who has been out of work for nearly two years and finally gets a job putting up movie posters, work that requires a bicycle.
Not in possession of a bicycle, Antonio pawns the family’s bed linen to get one, only to have it stolen. With the help of his young son, Bruno, Antonio begins a desperate search through the city to recover the bicycle—if he does not, he will lose his precious job and the only means of support for his family.
Bicycle Thieves, with its emotional clarity, social righteousness, and brutal honesty came to define the Italian Neorealist style of filmmaking, and served as a catalyst for new movements in filmmaking around the world. Yet it is the film’s simple, universal story, of the struggle for a dignified life in the face of overwhelming adversity, that continues to resonate with viewers everywhere.
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