Vittorio de Sica’s – LADRI DI BICICLETTE/BICYCLE THIEVES – issued on dvd

LADRI DI BICICLETTE/BICYCLE THIEVES (U) 1948 ITALY SICA, VITTORIO DE £15.99
Oscar winning story of a poor man whose bicycle is stolen and he and his son search Rome for it.

Part of neorealist cinema movement that  shows the urban poverty in post-war Italy.

Antonio and his family are living on the breadline until Antonio lands a job as a bill-sticker.

However as a bicycle is need to carry out his new job  he is devastated when it is stolen.

Antonio sets out with his son Bruno across the city of Rome to look for it.

In Italian with English subtitles

DVD available to buy at –

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