Bicycle Thieves (1948) - (The Criterion Collection - #374) [2 DVD9] [2007]

Hailed around the world as one of the greatest movies ever made, Vittorio De Sica’s Academy Award–winning Bicycle Thieves (Ladri di biciclette) defined an era in cinema. In postwar, poverty-stricken Rome, a man, hoping to support his desperate family with a new job, loses his bicycle, his main means of transportation for work. With his wide-eyed young son in tow, he sets off to track down the thief. Simple in construction and dazzlingly rich in human insight, Bicycle Thieves embodied all the greatest strengths of the neorealist film movement in Italy: emotional clarity, social righteousness, and brutal honesty.




MOVIE:
DIRECTOR: Vittorio De Sica
COUNTRY: Italy
YEAR: 1948

Cast & Credits

Cast
Antonio Ricci Lamberto Maggiorani
Bruno Ricci Enzo Staiola
Maria Ricci Lianella Carell
Baiocco Gino Saltamerenda
The thief Vittorio Antonucci
The beggar Giulio Chiari

Credits
Director Vittorio De Sica
Screenplay Vittorio De Sica, Suso Cecchi D'Amico, Gerardo Guerrieri and Cesare Zavattini
Cinematography Carlo Montuori
Producer Giuseppe Amato and Vittorio De Sica
Story Cesare Zavattini
Based on a novel by Luigi Bartolini
Sound Gino Fiorelli
Editing Eraldo Da Roma
Music Alessandro Cicognini








DVD:
DVD RELEASE DATE: February 13, 2007
STUDIO: Criterion
CATALOG: 374
SYSTEM: NTSC
SCREEN: 1.33:1
Black & White
AUDIO: Italian Dolby Digital Mono
SUBTITLES: English
RUNTIME (MOVIE): 93 minutes


EXTRACTION:
ENGINE: DVD Decrypter
DVD: 2 Full Dual-Layer DVD
FILE EXTENSION: Image (.ISO) + MDS File
FILE SIZE: 13.4 GB (5.95 GB + 7.52 GB)
SCANS HQ PDF(800 DPI): 3.9 MB





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Disc Features

SPECIAL EDITION DOUBLE-DISC SET:

* New, restored high-definition digital transfer
* Working with De Sica, a collection of new interviews with screenwriter Suso Cecchi d’Amico, actor Enzo Staiola, and film scholar Callisto Cosulich
* Life as It Is, a new program on the history of Italian neorealism, featuring scholar Mark Shiel
* A 2003 documentary on screenwriter and longtime Vittorio De Sica collaborator Cesare Zavattini, directed by Carlo Lizzani
* Optional English-dubbed soundtrack
* New and improved English subtitle translation