Bicycle Thieves De Sica
By the time de sica made bicycle thieves in 1948 italian neorealism had found its groove.
Bicycle thieves de sica. Directed by vittorio de sica. Hailed around the world as one of the greatest movies ever made the academy award winning bicycle thieves directed by vittorio de sica defined an era in cinema. N eorealism never got more real than in vittorio de sica s 1948 classic ladri di biciclette or bicycle thieves occasionally mistranslated as the bicycle thief though the plural is surely. In poverty stricken postwar rome a man is on his first day of a new job that offers hope of salvation for his desperate family when his bicycle which he needs for work is stolen.
The postwar movement captured impoverished lives on their own terms relying on non professional. He and his son set out to find it. In post war italy a working class man s bicycle is stolen.