On his first day of work, Antonio is atop a ladder when a young man (Vittorio Antonucci) snatches the bicycle. Maria resolutely strips the bed of her dowry bedsheets-prized possessions for a poor family-and takes them to the pawn shop, where they bring enough to redeem Antonio's pawned bicycle. He is offered a job of pasting advertising bills but tells Maria that he cannot accept because the job requires a bicycle. In the post-World War II Val Melaina neighborhood of Rome, Antonio Ricci ( Lamberto Maggiorani) is desperate for work to support his wife Maria ( Lianella Carell), his son Bruno ( Enzo Staiola) and his small baby. It was also included on the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage’s 100 films to be saved, a list of 100 films that "have changed the collective memory of the country between 19." Plot In 1958, the film was voted number 3 on the prestigious Brussels 12 list at the 1958 World Expo, and number 4 in Empire magazine's "The 100 Best Films of World Cinema" in 2010. The film was also cited by Turner Classic Movies as one of the most influential films in cinema history, and it is considered part of the canon of classic cinema. In the 2012 version of the list the film ranked 33rd among critics and 10th among directors. It follows the story of a poor father searching in 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.Īdapted for the screen by Cesare Zavattini from the 1946 novel by Luigi Bartolini, and starring Lamberto Maggiorani as the desperate father and Enzo Staiola as his plucky young son, Bicycle Thieves received an Academy Honorary Award (most outstanding foreign language film) in 1950, and in 1952 was deemed the greatest film of all time by Sight & Sound magazine's poll of filmmakers and critics fifty years later another poll organized by the same magazine ranked it sixth among the greatest-ever films. Bicycle Thieves ( Italian: Ladri di biciclette sometimes known in the United States as The Bicycle Thief) is a 1948 Italian neorealist drama film directed by Vittorio De Sica.
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