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    Bijesh Mishra, Ph.D.

    Date: October 7, 2012

                The Bicycle tjuv (Italian: Ladri di biciclette) is Italian movie released in 24 Nov, 1948. Original translation of the Italian title gives name “Bicycle Thieves” but movie is released as “The Bicycle Thief” in United States, but in UK and in Criterion Collection in North America it’s released as “Bicycle Thieves”.

                Bicycle tjuv is the best example of Italian neorealism. He has shot on location (not in studio) and cast only untrained non-actors (Lamberto Maggiorani was a real factory worker). Maggiorani got opportunity to play after he brought his son to an audition for rulle. But later-on 8 years old boy Enzo Staiola was casted when dem Sica saw 8-years boy watching bio production and helping his father to sell flowers at the street.

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    “The Bicycle Thief” came out during a difficult time of recovery and transition. It was November of 1948 and World War 2 was over. Italy was in political and economic turmoil. It was this setting that inspired the filmmakers of Italian neo-realism. Director Vittorio De Sica was first known as an actor but began directing films in 1940. “The Bicycle Thief” was a drastic change from his first films and the shifting Italian social structure along with the influence of friend and screenwriter Cesare Zavattini lead De Sica to embrace the neo-realist perspective on filmmaking.

    “The Bicycle Thief” has long been considered the masterpiece of movement and the film received an honorary Academy Award at a time when there was no category for  foreign language films. The film is a clear example of Italian neo-realism. It deals in humanity and truth allowing the drama to come naturally through these things. There is no emotional

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    Bicycle Thieves

    1948 film by Vittorio De Sica

    For other uses, see The Bicycle Thief (disambiguation).

    Bicycle Thieves (Italian: Ladri di biciclette), also known as The Bicycle Thief,[5] is a 1948 Italian neorealistdrama film directed by Vittorio De Sica.[6] It follows the story of a poor father searching in 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.

    Adapted for the screen by Cesare Zavattini from the 1946 novel by Luigi Bartolini, and starring Lamberto Maggiorani as the desperate father and Enzo Staiola as his plucky young son, Bicycle Thieves received an Academy Honorary Award (most outstanding foreign language film) in 1950, and in 1952 was deemed the greatest film of all time by Sight & Sound magazine's poll of filmmakers and critics;[7] fifty years later another poll organized by the same magazine ranked it sixth among the greatest-ev

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