Bicycle Thieves

Bicycle Thieves is a 1948 Italian drama film directed by Vittorio de Sica. The story is based on the novel of the same name by Luigi Bartolini.Cesare Zavattini was for his screenplay was nominated for an Oscar. Ladri di biciclette got more than fifteen other prices actually awarded, including a Golden Globe, aBAFTA Award and two National Board of Review Awards. During the Oscars, the film was also a special honorary award for best foreign language film of the year.

The film ranks as one of the figureheads from the Italian neo-realism. Play in the film purely as amateurs. ==Story[ Edit] == In the Italy of just after the Second World War, there is high unemployment. Antonio Ricci lives with his young family in a new housing development of NorthernRome and can get a job as gypsy moth of posters in the public space. The only requirement for the job is that he has at his disposal a bike. His wife Maria pawns the sheets from the shut-down to Antonio's bike back from the pawn shop, but this is a film poster as Antonio aanplakt stolen at Via Nazionale. Thereupon Bruno Antonio and his son go looking for the bike. They are looking for with friendly garbage collectors on second-hand market (Piazza Vittorio and Porta Portese) in Rome, but a disassembled bike is of course never be found. Of the police is not expecting much. Even Antonio visits a fortune teller. They see the thief with an old Wanderer on Porta Portese, but the thief escaped. Via the Wanderer, who gets in a soup kitchen, they come to eat the thief on the track in a slum, but this one has the bike been resold. Neighbors and bystanders defend the thief.Also a police officer, who by the son to help Bruno is called can prosper. Antonio and Bruno go to a bus stop to go home. Desperate to keep his job, if he is to try to steal an unattended bicycle Antonio ultimately. But he is caught by bystanders in and for the sake of his son humiliated. Only thanks to the supplication of Antonio Bruno is released.He let Bruno by his few money lasagna eating at a restaurant so they flat broke coming home as night falls. ==Division Of Roles[ Edit] ==
 * Lamberto Maggiorani: Antonio Ricci
 * Enzo Staiola: Bruno Ricci
 * Lianella Carell: Maria Ricci
 * Vittorio Antonucci: Thief
 * Gino Saltamerenda: Baiocco
 * Giulio Chiari: Beggar