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2007

Title:	Bicycle thieves = Ladri de biciclette / story by Cesare Zavattini ; screenwriters, Vittorio De Sica, Cesare Zavattini, Suso Cecchi d'Amico, Gerardo Guerrieri ; director, Vittorio De Sica.
Format:	DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials, Electronic Resources
Edition:	Restored, digitally transferred version.
Publisher, Date:	Irvington, N.Y. : Criterion Collection : Image Entertainment [distributor], [2007]
Description:	2 videodiscs (89 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 guide (75 pages). 12 cm digital Dolby digital 5.1
Summary:	In postwar, poverty-stricken Rome, a man, hoping to support his desperate family with a new job, loses his bicycle and main means of transportation to work. With his wide-eyed young son in tow, he sets off to track down the thief.
Series:	Criterion collection ; 374
Subjects:	Poor families -- Italy -- Rome -- Drama. Cycling -- Italy -- Rome -- Drama. Bicycles -- Italy -- Rome -- Drama. Motion pictures, Italian. Rome (Italy) -- Drama.
Genre:	Feature films. Melodramas (Drama) Fiction films. Film adaptations.
Other Author:	De Sica, Vittorio, 1901-1974. Zavattini, Cesare, 1902-1989. Cecchi d'Amico, Suso. Guerrieri, Gerardo. Maggiorani, Lamberto, 1910-1983, actor Staiola, Enzo, 1939- actor Carell, Lianella, 1927-2000, actor Saltamerenda, Gino, actor Antonucci, Vittorio, actor Chiari, Giulio, actor Altieri, Elena, 1916-1997 actor Montuori, Carlo, 1885-1968. Cicognini, Alessandro, composer Bartolini, Luigi, 1892-1963. Ladri de biciclette. Criterion Collection (Firm) Image Entertainment (Firm)
Other Title:	Ladri de biciclette Bicycle thief Working with De Sica. Life as it is.
Notes:	Title from container. Based on the novel by Luigi Bartolini. Originally released as a motion picture in 1948. Special features: "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": new program on the history of Italian neorealism in cinema, with scholar Mark Shiel; documentary on screenwriter and longtime Vittorio De Sica collaborator Cesare Zavattini, directed by Carlo Lizzani. Plus: a book featuring new essays by critic Godfrey Cheshire and filmmaker Charles Burnett, remembrances by De Sica and his collaborators, and classic writings by Zavattini and critic Andre Bazin. Cinematographer, Carlo Montuori ; editor, Eraldo Da Roma ; original music, Alessandro Cicognini. Lamberto Maggiorani, Enzo Staiola, Lianella Carell, Gino Saltamerenda, Vittorio Antonucci, Giulio Chiari, Elena Altieri. DVD, NTSC; region 1; aspect ratio (1.33:1); Dolby digital mono Italian with English soundtrack with optional English subtitles. Special features: "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": new program on the history of Italian neorealism in cinema, with scholar Mark Shiel; documentary on screenwriter and longtime Vittorio De Sica collaborator Cesare Zavattini, directed by Carlo Lizzani. Based on the novel: [Ladri di biciclette] by Luigi Bartolini.
Contents:	Disc 1 : Feature ; Disc 2 : Special features : "Working with De Sica" featurette with D'Amico, Staiola, and film scholar Callisto Cosulich (23 min.); "Life as it is: The neorealist movement in Italy," featurette with film scholar Mark Shiel (40 min.) ; documentary by Carlo Lizzani on longtime De Sica collaborator and neorealist Cesare Zavattini (56 min.).
ISBN:	193412124X 9781934121245
Publisher or Distributor Number:	CC1681D
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