Bicycle thieves [videorecording] =Ladri de biciclette / story by Cesare Zavattini ; screenwriters, Vittorio De Sica, Cesare Zavattini, Suso Cecchi d'Amico, Gerardo Guerrieri ; director, Vittorio De Sica.
Contributor(s): De Sica, Vittorio | Maggiorani, Lamberto | Staiola, Enzo | Carell, Lianella | Bartolini, Luigi. Ladri di biciclette.
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Visual materialSeries: Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs): 374Publisher: [Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, c2007Edition: [Standard format], Special ed.Description: 2 videodiscs (89 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (75 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.).ISBN: 9781934121245; 193412124X.Other title: Ladri de biciclette | Bicycle thief.Subject(s): Poor -- Drama | Fathers and sons -- Drama | Theft -- Drama | Rome (Italy) -- Drama | Poor -- Fiction | Father-son relationship -- Fiction | Theft -- Fiction | Rome (Italy) -- Fiction | VideodiscsGenre/Form: Feature films. | DVD-Video discs.DDC classification: [Fic] | 853.914 Young Adult Follett Library Resources
DVD; Dolby digital mono.; region 1.
Soundtrack in Italian or English; subtitles in English.
Lamberto Maggiorani, Enzo Staiola, Lianella Carell, Gino Saltamerenda, Vittorio Antonucci, Giulio Chiari, Elena Altieri.
Cinematographer, Carlo Montuori ; editor, Eraldo Da Roma ; original music, Alessandro Cicognini.
Based on the novel by Luigi Bartolini.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1948.
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.
Includes special features.
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