Bicycle Thieves Vittorio De Sica

By the late 1920s he was a successful matinee idol of the italian theatre and repeated that.

Bicycle thieves vittorio de sica. Bicycle thieves was made by the writer director partnership of cesare zavattini and vittorio de sica. When antonio s bicycle is stolen he and his son are forced to walk the streets of rome in search of it or else face ruin. For the adult star of bicycle thieves de sica chose a factory worker lamberto maggiorani. In post war italy a working class man s bicycle is stolen.

7 july 1901 13 november 1974 was an italian director and actor a leading figure in the neorealist movement. This classic italian neorealist movie was directed by vittorio de sica and is one of the. In this video we talk about why cinephiles must see bicycle thieves. Sciuscià and bicycle thieves honorary while yesterday today and tomorrow and il giardino dei finzi contini won the academy award for.

Four of the films he directed won academy awards. He and his son set out to find it. He was increasingly drawn towards acting and made his screen debut while still in his teens joining a stage company in 1923. It follows the story of a poor father searching post world war ii rome for his stolen bicycle without which he will lose the job which was to be the salvation of his young family.

The two men made more than twenty films together beginning with i bambini ci guardano the children are watching us in 1944 and continuing with the neorealist films sciuscià in 1946 bicycle thieves in 1948 and umberto d. With lamberto maggiorani enzo staiola lianella carell elena altieri. The way he moved the way he sat down his gestures with those hands of a working man and not of an actor everything about him was perfect. Antonio an unemployed man in the depressed post wwii economy of italy at last finds a good job hanging up posters the only requirement for which is that he must have his own bicycle.

Vittorio de sica director. Vittorio de sica grew up in naples and started out as an office clerk in order to raise money to support his poor family. Already massively influential bicycle thieves grows in stature as the years go by its effect seen across so much modern realist cinema. Directed by vittorio de sica.

Bicycle thieves ladri di biciclette 1948 is an italian neorealist film directed by vittoria de sica that not only represents the high point of that particular genre but is also still ranked today among the greatest films ever made. Vittorio de sica d ə ˈ s iː k ə də see kə italian.