Bicycle Thieves

Vittorio De Sica · 1948 CE · Film · Italian · Contemporary

After two years without work, Antonio is offered a job posting bills in Rome on condition he has a bicycle, and his wife pawns the bedsheets to redeem theirs. On the first morning it is stolen off the street, and he spends Sunday searching the city with his small son beside him. Neorealism's whole ethics in one search.

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• ↓ Pather Panchali
  Satyajit Ray · 1955 CE · Film — influenced by this
• ↓ Los Olvidados
  Luis Buñuel · 1950 CE · Film — responds to this

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