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Title:
Bicycle thieves [blu-ray] = Ladri di biciclette
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Edition:
Blu-ray edition.
Publication Date:
2016
Publication Information:
[New York, NY] : The Criterion Collection, [2016]
Physical Description:
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (33 pages : illustrations ; 16 cm.)
ISBN:
9781604657326
Abstract:
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. With his young son in tow, he sets off to track down the thief.
General Note:
Based on the novel by Luigi Bartolini.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1948.
Special features: New 4K digital restoration with uncompressed monaural soundtrack; "Working with De Sica" a collection of interviews with screenwriter Suso Cecchi d'Amico, actor, Enzo Staiola, and film scholar Callisto Cosulich; "Life as it is" a program on the history of Italian neorealism, featuring scholar Mark Shiel; documentary from 2003 on screenwriter Cesare Zavattini, directed by Carlo Lizzani; plus: booklet featuring an essay by critic Godfrey Cheshire and reminiscences by De Sica and his collaborators.
Performers:
Lamberto Maggiorani, Lianella Carell, Gino Saltamerenda, Vittorio Antonucci, Giulio Chiari.
Technical Details:
Blu-ray; full screen (1.37:1); monaural; requires Blu-ray player; region A.
Language:
Italian
Additional Language:
Italian dialogue; English subtitles.
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