Description:
Hailed around the world as one of the greatest movies ever made, Vittorio De Sica's Academy Award-winning Bicycle Thieves defined an era in cinema. In postwar, poverty-stricken Rome, a man, hoping to support his desperate family with a new job, loses his bicycle and main means of transportation for work. With his wide-eyed young son in tow, he sets off to track down the thief. Simple in construction and dazzlingly rich in human insight, Bicycle Thieves embodies all the greatest strengths of the neorealist film movement in Italy: emotional clarity, social righteousness, and brutal honesty.
Special Features:
- New restored, high-definition transfer
- "Working with De Sica," a new collection of interviews
- "Life as It Is," a new program on Italian neorealist cinema
- Documentary on screenwriter Cesare Zavattini
- Optional English-dubbed soundtrack
- New and improved English subtitle translation
- Booklet featuring new essays, remembrances and classic writings