Bicycle Thieves tells the story of Antonio, an unemployed man who finally finds employment putting up cinema posters for which he needs a bicycle. His wife pawns all the family linen to redeem the already pawned bicycle and for Antonio salvation has come, until the bicycle is stolen. Antonio and his son take to the streets in a desperate search for it.
As much about the position of Italians in post-War, post-Fascist Italy as the relationship between father and son and told through the labyrinth of the cinematic city with De Sica’s arresting visual poetry, this seminal neo-realist work influenced Satyajit Ray and Ken Loach.
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