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Title Ladri di biciclette = The bicycle thief / un film P.D.S. "produzioni De Sica - S.A." ; soggetto di Cesare Zavattini, tratto dall'omonimo romanzo di Luigi Bartolini ; sceneggiato da Oreste Biancoli .. [and others] ; regia, Vittorio De Sica..

Publication Info. Chatsworth, CA : Image Entertainment Inc., 1998.
1949.

Copies

Location Call No. Status
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Adult Department  DVD FOREIGN BICYCLE THIEF    Check Shelf
 Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Media Room  DVD BIC    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  DVD BICYCLE    Check Shelf
 Granby, Main Library - Adult  FOREIGN DVD BIC    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  FOREIGN AD DVD BICYCLE    Check Shelf
 Simsbury Public Library - DVDs  DVD FOREIGN BICYCLE    Check Shelf
 South Windsor Public Library - Audio-Visual Materials  DVD BICYCLE THIEF    Check Shelf
 Southington Library - Adult  DVD Foreign BICYCLE    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Media Room  DVD FOREIGN BICYCLE    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  FOREIGN FILM DVD BICY    Check Shelf
Description 1 videodisc (89 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
System Details DVD, NTSC; Dolby Digital.
Note DVD release of the 1949 motion picture.
Performer Lamberto Maggiorani, Enzo Staiola, Lianella Carell, Gino Saltamerenda, Vittorio Antonucci, Giulio Chiari, Elena Altieri.
Credits Photography, Carlo Montuori ; editor, Eraldo da Roma ; music, Alessandro Cicognini.
Note Based on the novel by Luigi Bartolini.
Special features: Director's biography & filmography ; Awards ; Theatrical trailer.
Summary Story of an unemployed man and his son in war devastated Rome. The father finds a job pasting up posters, work requiring a bicycle to get around. The bicycle is stolen; panic stricken at being unable to recover his bicycle and at the prospect of losing his job, the father is compelled to steal a bicycle, only to be caught and humiliated in front of his son.
Audience Not rated.
Awards Golden Globe, 1950: Best foreign film.
Academy Awards, 1950: voted by the Academy Board of Governors as the most outstanding foreign language film released in the United States during 1949.
Language Italian or dubbed English dialogue with optional English subtitles.
Note GMD: videorecording.
Local Note WNPLFFDVD
Subject Italy -- Economic conditions -- 1945- -- Drama.
Indexed Term L'Italia Circostanze economiche 1945- Dramma.
Subject Foreign films -- Italy.
Motion pictures, Italian.
Realism in motion pictures.
Genre/Form Film adaptations.
Feature films.
Foreign films.
Foreign language films.
Added Author De Sica, Vittorio, 1901-1974.
Zavattini, Cesare, 1902-1989.
Biancoli, Oreste.
Maggiorani, Lamberto, 1910-1983.
Staiola, Enzo, 1939-
Carell, Lianella, 1927-2000.
Montuori, Carlo, 1885-1968.
Cicognini, Alessandro.
Bartolini, Luigi, 1892-1963. Ladri di biciclette.
Image Entertainment (Firm)
Corinth Films.
Added Title Bicycle thief
Standard No. 014381457223
Music No. ID4572CODVD Corinth Films
4572 Corinth Films
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