Other author/creator | Zavattini, Cesare, 1902-1989 screenwriter. |
Other author/creator | Biancoli, Oreste, screenwriter. |
Other author/creator | Montuori, Carlo, 1885-1968, screenwriter. |
Other author/creator | De Sica, Vittorio, 1901-1974 screenwriter, director. |
Other author/creator | Maggiorani, Lamberto, 1910-1983 actor. |
Other author/creator | Staiola, Enzo, 1939- actor. |
Other author/creator | Carell, Lianella, 1927-2000, actor. |
Other author/creator | Cicognini, Alessandro, composer. |
Other author/creator | Bartolini, Luigi, 1892-1963 Ladri de biciclette. |
Other author/creator | Produzioni De Sica S.A. |
Other author/creator | Criterion Collection (Firm) |
Other author/creator | Image Entertainment (Firm) |
Uniform title | Ladri di biciclette (Motion picture) |
Parallel title |
Bicycle thieves |
Variant title |
Bicycle thief |
Series |
Criterion collection ; 374 Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 374. ^A506835
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Contents |
Disc 2, the supplements. "Working with De Sica (23 min.) -- Life as it is : the neorealist movement in Italy (40 min.) -- Cesare Zavattini (56 min.). |
Abstract |
In post-WWII poverty-stricken Rome, a man struggles to earn a living for himself and his family. When his bicycle and main means of transport is stolen, with his young son in tow, he attempts to find the thief. |
General note | Based on the novel: Ladri de biciclette by Luigi Bartolini. |
General note | "Restored high-definition digital transfer"--Container. |
General note | "Under exclusive license from Image Entertainment"--Container. |
General note | Originally released as a motion picture in 1948. |
General note | Special features: "Working with De Sica" featurette, a collection of new interviews with screenwriter Suso Cecchi D'Amico, actor Enzo Staiola, and film scholar Callisto Cosulich; "Life as it is: The neorealist movement in Italy," featurette, a new program on the history of Italian neorealism in cinema, with film scholar Mark Shiel; Documentary by Carlo Lizzani on longtime De Sica collaborator and neorealist Cesare Zavattini. |
General note | Program notes on container insert include the following essays : "A passionate commitment to the real" by film critic Godfrey Cheshire, "Ode to the common man" by filmmaker Charles Burnett, "Some ideas on the cinema" by neorealist writer Cesare Zavattini, "Bicycle Thieves" by film critic Andre Bazin, and the following remembrances : "My secret" by director De Sica, "But this is Maria" by actor Carell, "We were always on the street" by Luisa Alessandri, "The smallest detail" by Sergio Leone, "Many friends, much noise" by Manuel De Sica, "Money kills the imagination" by Maria Mercader. |
Credits | Fotografia [= cinematography], Carlo Montuori ; scenografo [= art director], Antonio Traverso ; montaggio [= editor], Eraldo Da Roma ; musiche del maestro [= music], Alessandro Cicognini. |
Cast |
Lamberto Maggiorani, Enzo Staiola, Lianella Carell, Gino Saltamerenda, Vittorio Antonucci, Giulio Chiari, Elena Altieri. |
Audience |
Not rated. |
Technical details | DVD. |
Language | In Italian or dubbed English with optional English subtitles. |
Awards note | Winner, Honorary Academy Award for most outstanding foreign film released in the United States in 1949 ; Winner, Best Foreign Film, 1950 Golden Globes ; Winner, Best Film from Any Source, 1950 BAFTA Awards ; Winner, 1949 National Board of Review, USA, Best Director (Vittorio de Sica), Best Film. |
Genre/form | Film adaptations. |
Genre/form | Fiction films. |
Genre/form | Melodramas (Motion pictures) |
Genre/form | Feature films. |
ISBN | 193412124X |
ISBN | 9781934121245 |
UPC |
715515022224 |
Publisher number | CC1681D Criterion Collection |
Stock number | Midwest Tape http://www.midwesttapes.com |