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1948 Italian Classic

Oldie Movie DVD Digitally Mastered from Archival Prints

 

Vittorio De Sica's

"The Bicycle Thief"

Oscar Academy Honorary Award, Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Film & many other International Film Awards

Starring: Lamberto Maggiorani, Enzo Staiola, Lianella Carell

The film tells the story of Antonio Ricci, an unemployed man in the depressed post-World War II economy of Italy. With no money and a wife and two children to support, he is desperate for work. He is delighted to at last get a good job hanging up posters, but on the sole condition that he has a bicycle which must be used for work. He is told unequivocally: "No bicycle, no job." His wife Maria pawns their bedsheets in order to get money to redeem his bicycle from the pawnbroker.

Early on in the film, Ricci's coveted bicycle is stolen by a bold young thief who snatches it when he is hanging up a poster. Antonio thinks that the police will take the theft very seriously, but they are not really interested in the petty theft of a bike. The only option is for Antonio and his friends to walk the streets of Rome themselves, looking for the bicycle. After trying for hours with no luck, they finally give up and leave.

After a rare treat of a meal in a restaurant, Antonio admits to his son that if he isn't able to work, they will simply starve. Desperate for leads and with his better judgement clouded, Antonio even visits the dubious backstreet fortune teller that he had earlier mocked, in the hope that she may be able to shed light upon the bike's whereabouts. However, she merely doles out to him one of the truisms that form her stock in trade: "you'll find the bike quickly, or not at all." Feeling cheated, a crestfallen Antonio hands over to her some of the last money that they have. As he walks out of the house of the "prophet", he encounters the thief and chases him into a whorehouse...

 

Digital Repaired High Quality DVD

English Language, 93 min.

with removable sub-titles

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DVD will come in original artwork plastic box with factory sealed

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