Bicycle Thieves  (DVD Italian)

The film tells the story of Antonio Ricci, an unemployed worker who gets a job posting flyers in the depressed post-World War II economy of Italy. To keep the job, he must have a bicycle, so his wife Maria sells her wedding sheets to get the money to get his bicycle from the pawnbroker.Early in the film, the bike is stolen, and Antonio and his son Bruno spend the remainder of the film searching for it. Antonio manages to locate the thief (who had already sold the bicycle) and summons the police, but with no proof and with the thiefs neighbors willing to give him a false alibi, he abandons this cause.Antonio, desperate to keep his job, attempts to steal a bicycle himselfBicycle thief represents the neorealist movement in cinemaMaster Indian director Satyajit Ray considered bicycle thief as a great film which immensely influenced his style of filmmaking

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