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Bicycle thieves [dvd]

2009
DVDs
Antonio Ricci, unemployed for over two years, is overjoyed when he's finally given a job putting up posters. There's a catch, though - he needs a bicycle as a requirement of the job, so he pawns the family linen to get a pawned bicycle back. He goes off to his first day's work, truly happy for the first time in years - and the title of the film gives away what happens next ...
Imprint:
[Australia] : Umbrella Entertainment, [2009].
Collation:
1 videodisc (DVD) (87 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Notes:
DVD extras: That's life! - a documentary about Vittorio De Sica; theatrical trailer; Umbrella trailers; stills gallery.Based on a story by Luigi Bartolini.Original film Rome, 1948In Italian with English subtitles.
Credits:
Director, Vittorio de Sica; script, Cesare Zavattini; producer, Umberto Scarpelli.
Performers:
Cast: Lamberto Maggiorani, Enzo Staiola, Lianella Carell.
Audience:
Censorship classification: PG.
System details:
PAL format; Region 4.
Awards:
Golden Globe, 1950: Best foreign film.Academy Awards, 1950: Voted by the Academy Board of Governors as the most outstanding foreign language film released in the United States during 1949.
Dewey class:
791.4372
Language:
ItalianEnglish
BRN:
150788
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