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Bicycle thieves = Ladri di biciclette /

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: CC2269BD | The Criterion CollectionLanguage: Italian Original language: Italian Subtitle language: English Series: Criterion collection ; 374.Publisher: [New York, NY] : The Criterion Collection, [2016]Edition: Blu-ray editionDescription: 1 videodisc (89 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (33 pages : illustrations ; 16 cm.)Content type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
  • text
Media type:
  • video
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • videodisc
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781604657326
  • 1604657324
Other title:
  • Ladri di biciclette
Related works:
  • Motion picture adaptation of (work): Bartolini, Luigi, 1892-1963, Ladri di biciclette [author.]
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 791.43/72 23
LOC classification:
  • PN1997 .B53 2016
Production credits:
  • Director of photography, Carlo Montuori ; editor, Eraldo Da Roma ; original music, Alessandro Cicognini.
Cast: Lamberto Maggiorani, Lianella Carell, Gino Saltamerenda, Vittorio Antonucci, Giulio Chiari.Summary: In poverty-stricken postwar Rome, a man is on his first day of a new job that offers hope of salvation for his desperate family when his bicycle, which he needs for work, is stolen. With his young son in tow, he sets off to track down the thief.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Status Date due Barcode
Video Recording Carleton University, AVRC SP456 - Collections Room BLU-00413 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 16050314322

Special features: New 4K digital restoration with uncompressed monaural soundtrack; "Working with De Sica" a collection of interviews with screenwriter Suso Cecchi d'Amico, actor, Enzo Staiola, and film scholar Callisto Cosulich; "Life as it is" a program on the history of Italian neorealism, featuring scholar Mark Shiel; documentary from 2003 on screenwriter Cesare Zavattini, directed by Carlo Lizzani; plus: booklet featuring an essay by critic Godfrey Cheshire and reminiscences by De Sica and his collaborators.

Based on the novel by Luigi Bartolini.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1948.

Blu-ray; full screen (1.37:1); monaural.

This Blu-ray disc will not play on standard DVD players.

Italian dialogue; English subtitles.

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